From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2002-04-03T02:53:24+09:00
Subject: Re: seeking to understand...

Mark Probert wrote:
> Can any on the list who are familiar with both Python and ruby comment
> on the last sentence of the above?  What made you take a "second glance"
> at ruby?

The explicit self argument in Python. Made me gag, since even C++ does
this better.

And __under__score__blindness__. I'm a CamelCaseGuyInRubyRehab :-)

Not to mention the indentation model of Python... *shudder* 
The blocks in Ruby deliver my daily dosage of curly braces.

Another thing was the combination of reference counting and no plain
scope. I was doing C++ at the time and used destructor semantics for
sub-parts of methods. This made me wonder why Python didn't provide a
plain scope, since the idiom fits nicely with ref.counting, IMHO.

But before we rekindle this flame, I think the statements of Eckel was
dissected to pat� once upon a time: http://www.rubytalk.com/blade/23235

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