From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-11-04T22:16:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Ruby

From: "Enric Lafont" <enric@1smart.com>


> Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
>
> >Hello Enric,
> >
> >Monday, November 04, 2002, 12:24:56 PM, you wrote:
> >
> >EL> But, some others like "and", "or", "..", "..." ,  etc ... can be equally
> >EL> solved with a more purist aproach, yes, it's your language and you
> >EL> decide what is best for him, this is just a suggestion you may not like
:-)
> >
> >you can easily create additional control structures such as "loop" or
> >even "UNTIL" described in ruby book
> >
> >
> Yes, I know, this is the reason I was asking, that if in Ruby you can
> write those control structuress, then why are them language structures ?
>
> I'm getting used to this "constraint" and I think I can  live without
> it, but I'm just curious ...
>
> Enric


A quote from a recent poster:

  love your list but it's too much for me to follow.
  Please remove me from your list
  Thank you
  MIke Reavey

[END QUOTE]

By asking effectively the same question over and over, as if the answer would
somehow change, you are inadvertantly, and innocently, contributing to the
not-so-rare phenomenon exhibited above.  This is now a large group, and you are
treating it like IRC.

If I'm being rude, someone please pull me into line.

OK, I'll lighten up now.

Enric, you obviously have a lot of knowledge of Smalltalk, therefore I have a
lot to learn from you.  Hopefully, your contributions to this group will be
great and diverse.  However, if you want Smalltalk, you know where to find it
:)

Regards,
Gavin

PS. BTW, I don't discourage endless Ruby chatter.  Depending where you live,
there may be a Ruby Users Group that forms a good outlet for that sort of
thing.  Failing that, try IRC.  Hopefully, when the conference finishes, David
Black will post another programming challenge for us to focus our energies on.