From: David Alan Black Date: 2002-04-04T05:52:39+09:00 Subject: Re: Understanding Python Hi -- On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Massimiliano Mirra wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:23:47PM +0900, David Alan Black wrote: > > > klasses.each_send(:just_say) > > See http://www.rubygarden.com/article.php?sid=127 for a discussion > > of the pros and cons of this (culminating in a rejected RCR, but > > still doable in Ruby). > > Erm, I read the page, but what was the official reason for rejecting > it? The only not-matter-of-taste point I seemed to find was that more > work would be required each time one adds a method to implement that > behaviour as well. Well, matter-of-taste points count for a lot, if it's Matz's taste we're talking about :-) Anyway, Matz's comment was: It's too functional so that I'm afraid it would not work well with OO nature of Ruby. Maybe it's matter of notation. David -- David Alan Black home: dblack@candle.superlink.net work: blackdav@shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav