From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-03-21T07:27:37+09:00
Subject: [OT] Re: Strong advantages over Python

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:08:06AM +0900, Paul Prescod wrote:
> Please verify these publically before you teach this stuff to these 
> students. I'm not going to get into an argument about whether Ruby is 
> better than Python, but I do know for a fact that Python can do some 
> things that you say it cannot. There may be nuances that are unique to 
> Ruby but the overall features are there.
> 
> For instance:
> 
> ~/p4/usr/pprescod> cat foo.py
> 
> class Foo:
>     def __getattr__(self, attrname):
>         return lambda : attrname
> 
> f =  Foo()
> print f.a()
> print f.b()
> print f.c()
> 
> Foo.special = lambda(self) : "In dynamically assigned method"
> f.special()

 [Side question] Is there no access control?

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