From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-06-20T06:30:03+09:00
Subject: Re: local vars clobbered by un-run code



On Jun 19, 4:27 pm, "Robert Dober" <robert.do...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/19/07, Ian Whitlock <iw1j...@comcast.net> wrote:> Trans wrote:
>
> Tom it just strikes me, your thread and mine about Singleton classes
> not being in ancestors and small other things I always see the same
> pattern. Rick's blog entry is another example, always the same
> pattern, it is the pattern of imperfection which is the  *only* thing
> that slightly bothers me in Ruby:
>
>    Consistency.
>
> Maybe, probably I am wrong, but I feel that when it comes to these
> subtle things Ruby is lacking consistency.
>
> There just seems no reason for some behavior and your example above is
> a classical example. You ask yourself why and you cannot find an
> answer.
>
> And worst of all, you have to remember!!
>
> Still a great, great language of course.

That is true. Ruby does have some rough edges. Though I chalk much of
it up to the fact that convenience and flexibility often comes with a
price of a few quirks.

T.