From: Walton Hoops <walton@...>
Date: 2010-02-05T12:17:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Can Ruby Do This?

On 2/4/2010 7:46 PM, Mr Bubb wrote:
> 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.
>    
No I wouldn't, if on the other hand you came to me and asked "How do you 
do write a 'for' loop in Ruby?"
I would indeed ask "why do you need a 'for' loop?"  Why ask? Because 
while writing something akin to a 'for'
is *possible* in Ruby, Ruby has other methods of achieving the same 
result which are preferred.  Thus,
seeing as your original question has been dealt with by others, it makes 
perfect sense to ask _why_
you would want to do something that just doesn't seem like the best 
_Ruby_ solution in most cases.