From: "David A. Black" Date: 2009-02-16T22:13:17+09:00 Subject: Re: What are your favorite Ruby features? --1926193751-1624929001-1234789996=:26858 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="1926193751-1624929001-1234789996=:26858" This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --1926193751-1624929001-1234789996=:26858 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Robert Dober wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:36 PM, David A. Black wrote: >> Hi -- >> >> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Robert Dober wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Tony Arcieri wrote: >>> Very nice, thank you for showing the polling results. >>> I see that the single most loved feature is lambdas with 88%. >>> I like that but do we use them to that extent? >> >> There's no usage extent implied. Does your diet consist mainly of your >> favorite food? :-) > Good point, David, but in "my favor" ;). My diet consists mostly of my > favorite food... (pasta, caff�, cioccolati ) > Surely you will eat as much of your favorite food as a balanced diet > allows (and probably just a little more). > Do we do this with lambdas? I do not think so..., do you? Language features aren't gratifying in the same way that food is, though. There's another agenda: writing a program as well as possible. If that agenda isn't served by lambdas, then there are no lambdas, even if I think lambdas are really cool. I love many Ruby features but they don't have the same kind of pull as, say, Sugar Pops :-) David -- David A. Black / Ruby Power and Light, LLC Ruby/Rails consulting & training: http://www.rubypal.com Coming in 2009: The Well-Grounded Rubyist (http://manning.com/black2) http://www.wishsight.com => Independent, social wishlist management! --1926193751-1624929001-1234789996=:26858-- --1926193751-1624929001-1234789996=:26858--