From: Marko Schulz <in6x059@...>
Date: 2002-04-03T09:28:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Difference between 'do' and 'begin'

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 05:53:52AM +0900, Chris wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:59:36 GMT, Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>
> wrote in comp.lang.ruby:
> 
> >> a + b     # expression
> >> x = a + b # statement
> >
> >aren't both of them expressions in Ruby?
> 
> Yes.  In OO languages every code fragment either returns a value or raises
> an exception.  

Huh? This is true for ruby. And I would accept it as a proposition for
functional languages. But OO? Why is a language that includes
statements and methods without a return value not OO?

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marko schulz