From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-11-07T20:41:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Book wanted: Metaprogramming in Ruby

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Eric Armstrong wrote:
> --and 5 or 6 authors is a /great/ idea.
> Make it a tiny book--5 or 6 chapters, one chapter
> on each of the cool topics.
>=20

Umm, please no. I'd prefer a coherent in-depth text, preferrably one
that eschews "cool" as much as possible. Even if Ruby makes wome witty
hacks easy and lets them hobble along without breaking for quite a
while, metaprogramming is not an easy topic, even -with- the amazingly
direct access to the object model Ruby gives you it's error-prone, and
I'd hate a superficial book that would make it look simpler than it is
and spawn the Ruby/meta equivalent of VB6.

David Vallner


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