From: Daniel Schoch <trash@...>
Date: 2009-03-04T01:24:43+09:00
Subject: Re: expanding environment variable

Dominik Honnef wrote:
> On [Wed, 04.03.2009 00:16], Daniel Schoch wrote:
>> Perfect, thanks. I sometimes have a hard time with those efficient 
>> one-liners. It's all so cryptic.
> 
> Well, the only really cryptic thing about this one is the regexp, but
> thats just a matter of learning regular expressions. And well, the
> rest are basic ruby idioms/features like blocks. Comes time comes
> knowledge, you will get used to those one-liners :)

That is true. I'm used to the old-fashioned programming of C, assembly 
and such. There, things go with baby-steps, you do one little thing at a 
time.
All of a sudden with perl/ruby and such you can do tons of stuff with 
few lines. My brain is not wired for this. I have a hard time forming a 
ruby-worthy solution around a problem, as I'm always falling back to C's 
small step way of thinking. But you're right, comes time comes 
knowledge.
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