From: Jenda Krynicky <jenda@...>
Date: 2007-03-07T22:38:00+09:00
Subject: Re: elseif v. elsif ??

David A. Black wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> On 3/7/07, 7stud 7stud <dolgun@excite.com> wrote:
> 
>> Does Ruby try differentiate itself in ridiculous ways like that just for
>> the sake of being different?
> 
> No -- literally never.
> 
> 
> David

Yeah. Like the use of "throw" and "catch"; ".inject"; "yieieild" that's 
not really the yield of coroutines, but just a way to call the unnamed 
closure (or the unnamed unnamed function) that was passed to the method 
as the last parameter; the fact that "and" and "or" have the same 
precedence, while && has bigger precedence than ||, etc. etc. etc.

The fact that I'm supposed to write

 puts 1 + 2 +
  3

or

 puts 1 + 2 \
  + 3

(Visual Basic anyone?) it fairly ... wuby as well.

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