From: John Johnson <jj5412@...>
Date: 2003-07-17T00:32:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Keyword "with"

on 7/16/03 11:01 AM, Hal E. Fulton at hal9000@hypermetrics.com wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Johnson" <jj5412@earthlink.net>
>> 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.

Yes, you covered the /how/, and the /why/ would seem to be
so you don't have to preceed the methods in Kernel with .. Perhaps
there are other reasons too.

Anyway, as pointed out by others, sugar is present, and it is good.
To much would be bad.

-- 
Regards,
  JJ

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