From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-02-03T15:32:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Initial release of Elemental

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:
> From your github readme:
>
>>  if my_user.status == UserStatus::active.value
>>  my_user.favorite_color = Color::blue
>
> versus:
>
>>  if my_user.status == UserStatus::ACTIVE
>>  my_user.favorite_color = Color::BLUE
>
> ?
>
> in other words, why would I want to add 250 lines of dependency code where 0
> seems to suffice?

Don't be so harsh Ryan.  You'd need at least two lines of code there :)

-greg

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