From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-09-05T03:02:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics


> So what on earth is wrong with "unless"?  It's a perfectly normal English
word
> given a perfectly good use in Perl/Ruby.

Actually, I think you've hit on it: The reason TMTOWTDI in Ruby/Perl
is that TMTOWTDI in English (and other natural languages). Just my opinion.
It's about freedom of expression (in the artistic sense, not the political).

> One point you should have mentioned was aliases.  I don't know how many
people
> in the group like them.  Personally, I like them in the built-in classes,
> because it accomodates different language backgrounds.  I prefer "map" and
> "indices"; were it not for aliases, I'd probably have to conform to
"collect"
> (what the hell does *that* mean? ;) and "indexes" (a bastard of a word if
ever
> I saw one).

:) :) :)

OT: When I was reading the proofed copy of _The Ruby Way_ (a long and
arduous
task), I found that someone had changed every instance of "vertices" to
(get ready to wince) "vertexes." I told them that of all the books in math,
geometry, and computer science I had ever seen in my life, I had *never*
seen the word "vertexes."

Hal