From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2001-11-13T09:02:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24963] Re: Linux Magazine article

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 08:06:33AM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> So, a quick poll request: what features of Ruby do you think would
> most impress or excite someone who hasn't used the language yet?

As apparent from my recent posts, dynamism rock. :-)

If you want something more specific: I am particularly in love with
method_missing.  Back in my Object Pascal days, circumventing the
absence of multiple inheritance meant creating proxy objects, a task I
came to hate: neverending typing of information that was redundant and
nevertheless forced to update two interfaces instead of one, if the
proxied happened to still be under development.  method_missing makes
it as simple as typing @proxy.send(method_id.to_s, *args) in
method_missing, and hands, wrists and schedule are all happier. :-)


Massimiliano