From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-09-13T21:43:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

Hi,

I think in Ruby, if you are sure that in your script there are no others
with names such as "cos" and "sin", you could simply put

    include Math

and then you can simply write

    z = cos(x) * sin(y)

Regards,

Bill
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Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christoph" <chr_news@gmx.net>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby

>> Actually I don't really mind so much writing abs(x) or sin(x)
>> but I just cannot get over the ``Math'' prefixes Math.cos(x),
>> Math.sin(x) ....  they are reaaally tacky.
>>
> Pardon my ignorance, but I don't see what the alternative to Match.cos(x) is,
> nor do I understand the talk of namespaces.  The only alternative to
> Math.cos(x) is Kernel::cos(x), isn't it?  That would eventually lead to name
> clashes.  Is namespaces a solution here?

>> /Christoph

> Gavin