From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-07-08T02:47:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ruby-opengl

From: "John Gabriele" <jmg3000@gmail.com>
>
> I'm not trying to be the new maintainer of ruby-opengl per se.

Rats.  Because I really liked the web site.  :)

> I just
> wanted to use more normal lookin gl calls in my little hobby-type gl
> apps, and so modified ruby-opengl to make it so.

Incidentally, I'd wager the reason the C-style GL calls all
use function name prefixes, is because that's standard practice
in 'C', since there's no namespace or module-like mechanism.

I doubt whether we'd prefix all our functions like that in
'C' if we had an alternative.

That's why Yoshi's placing the GL calls into modules never
bothered me, for the ruby bindings.  It seemed a reasonable
fit for a language that _does_ have namespaces.  (Why preserve
a 'C' language convention that exists only to work around
that language's lack of namespaces?)


In any case - welcome to Ruby!


Regards,

Bill