[#3986] Re: Principle of least effort -- another Ruby virtue. — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

> Principle of Least Effort.

14 messages 2000/07/14

[#4043] What are you using Ruby for? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

16 messages 2000/07/16

[#4139] Facilitating Ruby self-propagation with the rig-it autopolymorph application. — Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2000/07/20

[ruby-talk:03920] Re: A question about variable names...

From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-07-11 01:37:39 UTC
List: ruby-talk #3920
"Hal E. Fulton" <hfulton@austin.rr.com> writes:

> That's the way I've unconsciously been treating it already. It wouldn't
> have occurred to me to use @123 as an attribute name.

I _thought_ I knew Ruby when I used it.

I _really_ thought I knew Ruby when I wrote about it.

I realized I knew less than I thought when I started writing a test
suite for the interpreter ;-)


It had never occurred to me either (although I knew that $2 was a
valid _global_ name)


Regards


Dave

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