From: jimmy thrasher <jjthrash@...>
Date: 2001-08-01T21:34:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18955] Re: newbie autovivification

It seems to me that this is a prime example of something that could
be a Behavior (a la David Black).

Just brainstorming,

Jimmy

Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Nat Pryce wrote:
> 
> > > > Please add this cool Python stuff to Ruby.
> > > >
> > > > If 25 < foo < 75 : print "middle"
> > >
> > > This would be nice, but it requires hacking the parser, which (as far as
> > > I understand) is already a complex beast. At least "25 < x < 75" raises an
> > > exception in Ruby. It doesn't silently give the wrong answer (as in C).
> >
> > And you can use a range:
> >
> > print "middle" if 25..75 === foo
> >
> >
> I wrote about this a while ago.  See:
> 
> http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/ruby/comparisons.html
> 
> >
>         Hugh
>         hgs@dmu.ac.uk