From: tjnogueira@...
Date: 2009-02-05T00:44:12+09:00
Subject: Re: RProperties 0.0.1 Released

Dominik, you said:
"...
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') 
..."

And i was think thats can be a good way.
- tiago



On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 00:38:25 +0900, <tjnogueira@oomaster.com> wrote:
> 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')
>>