From: Christoph <chr_news@...>
Date: 2002-09-24T04:59:07+09:00
Subject: Re: are functions/methods "first class objects"?


"Christian Szegedy"
....
> Using blocks has some other benevolent psychological
> and aesthetical aspect: it prevents an inflation of parenthesis.
> Whatever you prefer: do ... end or
> { ... }, it gives valuable hints: this is a piece
> of executable code, while the CAML, LISP and smalltalk
> syntax is much less balanced in my eyes.
>
> Therefore, I think that Ruby is at least as elegant
> and powerful in handling functional features as the functional languges.

Try writing something as seemly simple as a functional
Proc composition in Ruby (preserving arity etc.)

class Proc
    def *(an_other_proc)
          ..
     end
end


This experience might change your mind ...

/Christoph