From: Nit Khair <sentinel.2001@...>
Date: 2008-10-23T00:06:20+09:00
Subject: Re: What exactly does "rubyish" or "ruby way" mean?

Thanks a lot for all the tips.

Let's say I am writing base classes or a library to be used by others. I 
am wondering that there must be things ruby provides that give a simpler 
or more elegant interface to the users. Blocks was an example i gave 
earlier. Yielding values in a loop was an example. I am beginning to 
understand yielding self or just yield, too.

Perhaps one could give an example of Modules as in the Enumerable 
module. If your class defines an "each" (iirc) then you automatically 
get many methods for free.

Maybe the correct approach for me is to compare how a library is 
implemented in another language (or non ruby way) versus a good ruby 
implementation. e,g,
1. compare getoptlong to optparse
2. compare sqlite wrapper in java vs ruby ?
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