From: Justin Johnson <justinj@...>
Date: 2002-10-09T22:51:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Any Pascal's Influence on Ruby?


I think Matz was referring to "all operators are expressions" aspect.

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Justin Johnson

"Bulat Ziganshin" <bulatz@integ.ru> wrote in message
news:17773325833.20021009172543@integ.ru...
> Hello Yukihiro,
>
> Wednesday, October 09, 2002, 5:21:01 PM, you wrote:
>
> YM> |   and such things as "()" equal to "begin...end" and "all operators
> YM> |   are expressions" is "sign of devil" of algol-68, so i think that
> YM> |   matz knows this language
>
> YM> I know little about Algol 68.  I was a baby back then.  I learned
> YM> these "signs of devil" from Lisp.
>
> lisp don't have begin/end, afair. if you reinvented this equivalence
> independent from algol-68, it's a very cool :)
>
>
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> Best regards,
>  Bulat                            mailto:bulatz@integ.ru
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