From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2007-11-22T05:32:32+09:00
Subject: Re: porting java methods to ruby


On Nov 21, 2007, at 02:41 , Robert Dober wrote:

>>>    public char[] getTextCharacters(int [] holderForStartAndLength)
> I do not like this ---------------------------------^
>
> def get_text_chars start=0, length=1
>
> IOW you cannot port Java to Ruby, it will remain Java in disguise.

nonsense... you can port it just fine if you allow for design changes.  
that is why I didn't pass in start or length at all... they're RETURN  
values, not arguments.