From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-03-28T01:46:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Suggestion: swap name of "puts" and "print" and rename "puts" to "put_s"

uhoh, I smell a new dialect of Ruby....
Ryiddish,
  or
Riddish?
  or
Rubish?

futz
On Mar 28, 2007, at 12:52 AM, Rick DeNatale wrote:

> On 3/24/07, _why <why@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 11:40:05PM +0900, Michael Brooks wrote:
>> > I've been using Ruby on-and-off for about 4 weeks now and love it.
>> > However, some of the naming consistencies really bug me.  The  
>> ones that
>> > bug me the most are the "print", "puts" and "putc".
>>
>> These are very subtle things, but you make some good points.  I
>> think "print" would be much friendlier if swapped with "puts."   
>> Especially
>> since puts is so filthy and derogatory to yiddish folk.
>
> Isn't that putz?
>
> Oy, gevault!
>
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