[ruby-talk:04057] Re: What are you using Ruby for?

Johann:
> using SWIG to automatically wrap the C++ classes.  Numeric Python is a
> wonderful tool; is there anything like it for Ruby?

They say there's something coming at Japan. Dunno what and when.

> The fact that functions are not first class in Ruby still bothers me,
> so I haven't experimented with it that much.

That bothered me too, but now it seems to me that one wants to use functions
only when one's hacking up some code - and Ruby is on it's best when you're
really OO. So I thought really hard if there is some need for "function
objects". And it seemed that there really is. I was hacking up a test where
I wanted to plug-in functionality.

So to see how Method objects (there are no functions in Ruby :p, just
methods and procs) could be introduced and how they are introduced already:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/3972

	- Aleksi