From: Mr Bubb <jcabraham@...>
Date: 2010-02-05T11:46:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Can Ruby Do This?

Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> 
> If you're so sure of that, why are you asking for help?  There may be no 
> better way in Perl, but Ruby is not Perl. :)

Is there a hidden camera, or something? It's not legit to say "I'm a 
ruby newbie, is there a way to do x in ruby?" If I had said, hey perl 
has one line comments, how do you do one line comments in ruby, would 
you answer, well, why do you need one line comments? Jeez.

> 
>>  You must not need to quickly create 
>> data structures from flat files, I guess.
> 
> Instead of assuming what my needs are, let's focus on yours.  Nested 
> hashes *may* be the best solution in Ruby, but if you provide more 
> information about your use case, we can give you better help.

This is like the old Bostonian joke:

Question: "Can you tell me how to get to Roxbury?"
Answer: "Whaddaya wanna go there for?"

I guess what I'm saying is, thanks anyway.

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