[ruby-talk:00542] Re: A new discussion topic ;-)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:00539] A new discussion topic ;-)"
    on 99/08/01, Clemens Hintze <[e-mail]> writes:

|As I have already said, it is not a real proposal. But I would like to
|know, what would you think about a language with Ruby's syntax but a
|OOP concept like the explained above. Would you like such a language?

I like your idea to make a new language with Ruby's syntax (and
concept).  Designing a language really is fun.  Why don't you join the
game, Clemens? :-)

OK, let's name it `Serf'.  You know it's hard to tell Ls and Rs for us
Japanese.   Also, `r' can mean it inherited some attributes from Ruby.
# footnote: it's joke, of cource.  you can name it by yourself.

Anyway, class-less OOPing is interesting.  I knew Self and its
class-less programming before I designed Ruby.  Concept of singleton
methods inherited from it.  But, class concept is useful for example,
to organize library.  So I didn't abandon the classes in Ruby.

In addition, `^' prefix notation is pretty interesting, too.

                                                matz.