From: Kyle Cordes Date: 2002-01-01T08:03:33+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:29909] Re: Ruby/Python: Software Engineering "Mathieu Bouchard" wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.21.0112311600250.3187-100000@bartok... > > Enforced indention (you indent your own code I bet) > That's a nice feature to save writing "end" all the time. But not having > to write "self" all the time is much more important to me. That's always been a mystery to me... I enjoy Python's terseness that comes from using indentation to describe blocks, but it doesn't seem to reconcile with the (IMHO) sillyness of writing self everywhere. Then again, I don't like the @varname thing in Ruby either. I *do* like both Python and Ruby, so please don't interpret either of my comments as flames or flamebait... -- [ Kyle Cordes * kyle@kylecordes.com * http://kylecordes.com ] [ Consulting, Training, and Software development tips and ] [ techniques: Java, Delphi, ASTA, BDE Alternatives Guide, ] [ JB Open Tools, EJB, Web applications, methodologies, etc. ]