From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-02-16T19:25:56+09:00
Subject: Re: What are your favorite Ruby features?

Hi --

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Tony Arcieri wrote:

> I'm creating a new language which borrows heavily from Ruby, and I'm curious
> what features of Ruby its users enjoy the most.
>
> I've put up a poll here:
>
> http://www.twiigs.com/poll/Technology/Computers/25588
>
> It's multiple choice, but if possible, try to limit yourself to the top 10
> features of Ruby you consider important, rather than checking every single
> box.
>
> And of course, feel free to respond on the list, particularly with any
> features you think I've omitted which are worthy of attention.

Some of the choices involve coupling things that I wouldn't
necessarily put together, like the standard library and its use of
blocks (I'm not sure what you mean by the latter; things like
File.open {} ?) or open classes and monkeypatching (I don't know which
of the various meanings of the latter you mean; I think they're all
subsets of the former) or optional parens and English-like readability
(I'm ambivalent about both, but for different reasons, and it depends
a bit which optional parens you mean).

A couple of other things that might go on such a list:

String interpolation
Zero being true
Single inheritance

Anyway, I had no trouble finding ten and then some! :-)


David

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