From: "Brian F. Feldman" Date: 2001-10-04T12:28:26+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:22050] Re: Perl Apocalypse 3. John Carter wrote: > I see the Perl 6 Apocalypse 3 is up. > > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/02/apocalypse3.html > > Is there anything there that Ruby can learn from? NO!!!!! Absolutely not! Ruby does _not_ have a confusing mass of hundreds of operators, and would never be the same if this kind of stuff being proposed and accepted in Perl 6 were adopted. The syntax for Perl 6 originally looked like a nicer, more OO-natural Perl 5, but now is starting to look an order of magnitude worse as the operator-soup continues to grow amazingly. Ruby doesn't look like line noise. It's very hard to make it look like line noise since we have reasonable method names and not a plethora of operators. > I see Ruby is quoted as something Perl 6 is learning from. > > Hmm. It seems to me that Perl 6 could afford to learn from the Ruby gsub > with block semantics. Hopefully that should be easily possible in Perl 6 without any real modification :) -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------'