From: Matthew Kerwin <matthew@...>
Date: 2012-10-28T16:20:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Name/symbol/object type clash? What is happening here?

On 28 October 2012 11:50, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 27, 2012, at 17:32 , 7stud -- <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>
>> Bartosz Dziewoński wrote in post #1081604:
>>> Robert, please stop feeding the troll. I've received enough e-mails
>>> from this idiotic thread already.
>>>
>>> -- Matma Rex
>>>
>>
>> That's just pure ignorance, and I might add...a cowardly statement.
>
> ...says the other troll in this thread...
>

Hah, burn.

And for the record, if anyone can show me where/how part of *any* Ruby
script is "breaking away from Ruby language rules" I will laud your
whatsernames.  If you can write a program in spite of the interpreter
and still have it work, then you're doing magic.

This class may not be idiomatic, but it isn't _illegal_:

    class Foo
      def initialize n
        @notnum = n
      end
      def num= n
        @notnum = n
      end
      def num
        @notnum
      end
    end

Ditto Struct, and Array (where's the @c_array instance variable?) and
Hash (@map? @members? @..?)

Struct is great for some things (like quickly defining an object that
holds some named values, but not arbitrarily many) but not great for
others (like overriding access to said values).  Suck it up.  And only
use it when it's most appropriate in your script.  And quit whinging.
Or go write Python.  (Hah, burn again!)

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