From: tjnogueira@...
Date: 2009-02-05T00:38:25+09:00
Subject: Re: RProperties 0.0.1 Released

Dominik,
I just put the ideas on the air and i'm open to sugestions etc...
This is the first release and i know that i have too much work to do and if
somebody 
have other ideas please , lets talk!
- tiago

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:33:21 +0900, Dominik Honnef <dominikho@gmx.net>
wrote:
>> But my intention to make rproperties is to mantain the java way and ,
> with
>> this, convence more java users
>> here in brazil to migrate to ruby, and migrating , they will be
> completly
>> free to use the ruby ways and discover this wonderfull language , that i
>> prefer too!
> 
> I doubt that people coming from Java will discover the beauty of Ruby
> if they are able to use things like RProperties. And in my opinion,
> something like #get_p(...) is not Ruby-like at all.
> 
> The proper way would be to actually show them how it is done in Ruby's
> way.
> 
>> site_name   = My Crazy Blog About Ruby
>> site_author  =  Barack Obama
>> author_email = barack@whitehouse.org
> 
> By simply adding "" around the values, you could even use this kind of
> format with, e.g., instance_eval and provide an interface like the
> following:
> 
>   Properties.site_name
> 
> to get the value of site_name, which is way nicer than get_p('site_name')
>