From: Piers Cawley <pdcawley@...>
Date: 2001-10-24T16:38:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23148] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

"Avdi B. Grimm" <avdi@avdi.org> writes:

> On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 16:25, Michael Neumann wrote:
>> meth_b = a.method(:b)
>> 
>> meth_b.call()   # => "b"
> 
> Ditto this. I'm surprised by how often this feature gets overlooked.
> Taking Python's (current) lack of real closures (I.E. lambda's don't
> bind to local variables inside the scope in which they are created),

Python *still* doesn't have real closures? Coo. One more reason for
this boy not switching yet.

> there's simply no comparison between Python and Ruby's functional
> programming capabilities.

Okay, so I've not started to seriously code in Ruby, but Ruby's
functional capabilities are what really get me excited about the
language. (And they're what Larry's busy stealing for Perl 6...)

-- 
Piers