From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-11-02T15:19:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] logo

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 04:02:43AM +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 04:51:42AM +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> >>(ps. I'm writing a book called "Butfirst Logo".)
> >
> >I tend to guess that's a joke -- but if you're serious, I'd like to know
> >more.
> 
> Sorry to disappoint you.... it's a terrible joke. :)

Darn.  I thought it was a pretty *good* joke, if you were serious.  More
high-class, self-deprecating puns like that in the titles of technical
texts would be a plus, I think.


> 
> It Matz really does add Enumerable#butfirst (being discussed now), this 
> book title could be a reality for ruby....

The butfirst procedure in Logo is pretty damned useful.  I wouldn't be
opposed to seeing an Enumerable#butfirst in Ruby -- even with the
unavoidable juvenile humor that will be only mildly amusing the first
time, and will rapidly lose its charm from there.

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