From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-07-20T10:09:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby tutorial for Perl hackers?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Hunter" <cyclists@nc.rr.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: Ruby tutorial for Perl hackers?


> Check out Appendix A, "From Perl to Ruby", in Hal Fulton's book _The
> Ruby Way_. Very good appendix to a very good Ruby book.

Thanks much... and you can thank Guy Hurst for
Appendix A... my Perl is much too weak to have
written all that.
 
> P.S. Hal, if you're reading this, thanks for the tip in Listing 5.2!

I read almost every ruby-talk message... though sometimes I'm
forced to skim.

You're quite welcome for listing 5.2... but I should mention
that I did it in rather a silly way.

Since instance_eval is used, you don't need accessors or 
the "self." notation -- you can simply reference the
instance variables directly.

I only thought of that once it was too late to fix. :)


Hal Fulton