From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-07-17T00:01:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Keyword "with"

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From: "John Johnson" <jj5412@earthlink.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: Keyword "with"


> on 7/16/03 10:47 AM, Peter Hickman at peter@semantico.com wrote:
> > All I ask it that the request adds functionality to the language and not
> > sugar. 'with', 'x++', 'elseif', 'new' and the rest are just plain sugar.
>
> A little sugar isn't so bad, after all, this isn't RubyAtkins :-)
> An example of good sugar: All the methods in Kernel don't have to
> be preceeded by Kernel..

Hmm, is that sugar? I thought it was because the
top level is in the scope of Object, and Object
mixes in Kernel. Maybe I'm overlooking something.

Hal

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