From: "E. Saynatkari" Date: 2006-03-01T11:21:29+09:00 Subject: Re: :-( E. Saynatkari wrote: > Joe Van Dyk wrote: >> On 2/27/06, Gregory Seidman wrote: >>> Do as much as you can with meta-programming, since it should be comfortable >>> from a Ruby background. The rest... the rest is just syntax. >>> >>> } Joe >>> --Greg >> >> 1. Templates (that aren't in the STL) scare me. >> 2. I've looked at the source code for the Boost library and ran away >> screaming. >> 3. If I did write code like that, then not many people in my group >> would be able to easily grok my code. Perhaps they'll just need to >> bone up on the newest C++ stuff and read the requisite 8 books before >> touching my code. > > Does this help? > > template > void quack(duck& d) { duck.quack(); } (Insert about eight thousand lines of compilation errors and then s/duck.quack/d.quack/.) > E E -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.