From: Bulat Ziganshin Date: 2002-10-14T13:50:08+09:00 Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know Hello Christian, Saturday, October 12, 2002, 4:32:44 AM, you wrote: CS> In fact, I think, matz has a very clear design philosophy: CS> Conciseness and naturalness has always higher priority than performance. CS> Of course it does not mean that things are slowed down CS> unnecessarily, but he never compromises the first for the latter. Fixnum is not a pointer, though :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@integ.ru