From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-04-02T21:56:46+09:00
Subject: Re: OO vs. procedural programming

Hi --

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, 2:47:15 AM, Robert wrote:
>
> > The more interesting question to answer might be, when to start writing
> > your own classes.  That depends on the application.  A simple file filter
> > (aka grep and similar) can be written without the intervention of new
> > classes.
>
> I tend to create classes even for really simple apps, because Ruby
> executes everything as it finds it, meaning procedural code needs to
> be organised bottom-up.
>
> Putting things in classes (including a method "main") allows you to
> organise your code how you like, and then just call
>
>   MyApp.main
>
> at the end.

True, but so does:

  def main
    ...
  end

  main

:-)


David

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