From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-07-31T00:56:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Language Q's

ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:

> >>>>> "D" == Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:
> 
> D>    pierre a b: 1 c: 2
> 
>  unreadable for me, and I've used APL :-)

Smalltalk? Rather than

      drawWidget(fred, :x => 10, :y => 20, :color => :red)

we could write interfaces like

      drawWidget fred   x: 10   y: 20  color: red

The Ruby Tk constructors could replace the current instance_eval trick
with this syntax and lose the confusing scoping rules.

Just an idea...


Dave