From: Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Date: 2008-02-20T08:59:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any object-oriented File class in ruby ?

> In addition, there are many bad programmers that badly implement 
> ruby--check out just about any thread on this forum.  [...]
> As far as I can tell, not many people know how to write clear 
> efficient ruby code.

There are also a few trolls that delight in every chance to bash on ruby
and other ruby-ist's they can get ... right 7stud? But I agree on the
obfuscated part, for the following reason - I think a beautiful language
like ruby, and anyone writing in it, should not try to strive to write 
ugly
code. We already have a language that does this part, and as far as I 
can
tell it always tried to be a practical language without caring much 
about
elegance.

As to the specific question of tom_33 about File class not being
"object oriented", I assume this in part lies with the separation of
tasks, i.e. if you look at FileUtils and its abilities, and class Dir.
I sometimes confuse whether to use File.exist? or File.exists?
or Dir.exists? or Dir.exist? anyway. (But you can use your
own class and make it "object oriented" super easily. This is one of
ruby's great points.)

Personally, I do not know why there is this separation (with FileUtils),
but I am quite sure that there was a reason for it.
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