From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2001-11-30T06:31:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26966] Re: short article draft for review

Dave Thomas wrote:


> 1. Move the file between Unix and Windows boxes: what happens to the
>    literal newline? Is that what you wanted to happen?


That alone suffices :)
(I use UNIX format on Win, but anyways; that could cause problems)


> 3. Are you trying to communicate with your code? If so, why confuse
>    the reader with non-idiomatic structures. 


That's what I tried: instead of \n which is a symbol / code / escape for 
a newline character, I wrote the thing I wanted to print: a newline 
character ;)


> 4. What happens if you move the code en-masse into a method:
> 
>      |a = 1
>      |print "
>      |"
>      |b = 2
> 
>    might easily become
> 
>      |def my_method
>      |   a = 1
>      |   print "
>      |   "
>      |   b = 2
>      |end


good argument


> 5. Why take 9 characters to do what you can do more clearly with 4?


my try was 3 characters, "\n" is 4 (?)

Tobi



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