From: MenTaLguY Date: 2007-11-22T07:20:26+09:00 Subject: Re: porting java methods to ruby On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:50:07 +0900, "Robert Dober" wrote: >> > 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. > Ryan we are not going to write Java code in Ruby only because it can > be done, are we? IMO, Ryan's example was farthest from writing Java in Ruby of all the examples given in this thread. -mental