From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-01-09T11:33:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is there a seperate Math class?

On 1/8/07, Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@optonline.net> wrote:
> I have to think this is the first time I've ever really disagreed with
> matz and don't really understand his logic.
>
> If I were to ask someone for the length of the word apples, I would say
> "What is the length of apples?"  In ruby, this would be "apples".length.
>
> If I were to ask someone for the sine of, say, 90, I would say "What is
> the sine of 90?"  In ruby, this would be Math.sin(90) even though the
> structure of the sentence is the same as for "apples" above.

but 90.sin * 10 looks as ugly as can be.