From: Enrique Comba Riepenhausen Date: 2007-05-08T22:05:04+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] - Ruby Patterns Why should we delete it? Actually I think that the block is a valid pattern specifically for the Ruby language! I really appreciate your input and I hope we can get this moving... Cheers, Enrique Comba Riepenhausen On 8 May 2007, at 15:02, Robert Dober wrote: > On 5/8/07, Enrique Comba Riepenhausen 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 > > > -- > You see things; and you say Why? > But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not? > -- George Bernard Shaw >