From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2007-11-28T06:30:01+09:00
Subject: Re: "Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn't)"

On Nov 27, 2:59 pm, MenTaLguY <men...@rydia.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:30:06 +0900, MonkeeSage <MonkeeS...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>  UIManager.look_and_feel = UIManager.system_look_and_feel_class_name
>
> > I like how the setter is automatically initialized. :)
>
> There are a lot of niceties to JRuby's Java integration -- for
> example, a method called #isSomePredicate is also accessible as
> #some_predicate?, and (at least in 1.1) you can use a Ruby block
> in lieu of a terminal argument whose type is any single-method
> interface (e.g. Runnable).  Java collections also implement
> Ruby enumerable and so on.
>
> Not that there aren't rough spots to work out yet, but we're
> making a concerted effort to have Java libraries feel as "Ruby" as
> possible.
>
> -mental

A bit off-topic, but how does JRuby resolve that (i.e., the
convenience method resolution)? It is some AST magic, or something as
mundane as splitting camel-cased indentifier strings? (not to knock
the latter; if it works, it works). I'll have to digg into JRuby
againt next weekend. It's been three or four months since I last had a
gander. :)

"Keep on keepin' on"-in,
Jordan