From: Pat Maddox <pergesu@...>
Date: 2007-03-29T15:36:57+09:00
Subject: Re: code too hashy, I think

On 3/28/07, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thing is, there were elements on each line which affected not the
> > > lines themselves but the groups those lines were part of, and to
> > > collect those, I resorted to an additional hash. So I ended up with a
> > > hash of Structs, indexed by group ID, and a hash of collected
> > > elements, also indexed by group ID.
> >
> > Any chance you could show us some trivial example data (just ten
> > lines or so is fine and we only need the key fields) and how you want
> > to access it.  We might have better ideas when we see the specifics...
>
> I think there's no harm in that. Should be able to this evening.
>
> Since starting this thread, I've looked at another developer's code
> and seen very plainly that they were writing Python before they
> started writing Ruby. It'd be nice to make my Ruby so idiomatic that
> people didn't believe me when I told them I knew other languages. Kind
> of like learning to speak a foreign language with a perfect accent.

My Ruby is super sexy.  Just thought I'd throw that in there.  If you
want to form a shrine for me, I won't object.

Pat