From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-07-18T20:43:57+09:00
Subject: Re: syntactic sugar buzz

On 7/18/07, Phlip <phlipcpp@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Please reserve the term "syntactic sugar" for cutesy systems that don't
> provide for lean and incredibly expressive statements that scale very well!

First derogatory references to "monkey-patching" and now this -
whatever happened to the spirit of ruby? I thought we *liked*
syntactic sugar (otherwise we'd all just go use lisp).

martin