From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T22:02:11+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] - Ruby Patterns

On 5/8/07, Enrique Comba Riepenhausen <ecomba@mac.com> wrote:
> Hey Robert,
>
> you are absolutely right with the statement that a design pattern is
> language independent, still the way to implement a specific design
> pattern differs from language to language...
>
> Take the Observer for example. In Java for instance no one would
> think to implement this pattern from scratch (unless there is a very
> specific need not covered by the language) as it is available in the
> language (aka Observer and Observable).
>
> I do strongly believe that we would profit in general by a body of
> knowledge in Ruby Patterns as there might be even patterns that only
> apply to Ruby development... and for those patterns that are commonly
> known (Visitor, Strategy, Factory Method, etc) we still can build
> some advice for other novice developers that need advice...
>
> Thanks a lot for your input!
>
> Cheers,
Sure I did not say the contrary, go ahead and delete my entry about
blocks or I can do it myself if you are busy.

Cheers
Robert
>
> Enrique Comba Riepenhausen


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