From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-08-07T01:30:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19230] Re: Some remarks from a nembie in Ruby

>>>>> "R" == Renaud HEBERT <renaud.hebert@alcatel.fr> writes:

R> I wouldn't call this "changing completely the language":
R> - the octal notation is merely syntactical sugar for "consistency
R> purpose"

 You break some scripts

R> - the addition of "getlines without end-of-line" methods is a suggestion
R> to avoid portability nightmares: hardly a complete change.

 In [ruby-talk:19192] you want change #gets, or at least this is why I've
understood.

 #chomp is portable.

> IMHO, it would have been much better if by default:
> gets and getline return without the end-of-line and there are other
> methods which returns the line with the end-of-line: get_full_line for
> example.

 For me, your proposition is to add #get_full_line, not to add "getlines
 without end-of-line" 
 
R> While it may be too pretentious, I noted what bothered me on the fist
R> reading of the book, because afterwards you get "too used" to the
R> 'little quircks' of the language and you can't see what is bothering the
R> newbies..

 Well, perhaps this is the difference with me. I've not read the book (it's
 written in a strange language :-)) but writing scripts.


Guy Decoux