From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2003-12-01T09:11:40+09:00
Subject: Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?

Hi --

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> * Ferenc Engard; 2003-11-30, 13:06 UTC:
> * * Yukihiro Matsumoto
> > > Candidates are:
> > > 
> > >   * Perl style variables
> > 
> > If you still intend to use ruby for one-liners, then they should
> > remain IMHO. Anyway, they do not harm anybody. I vote to not
> > removing them.
> 
> I cannot see anything that requires one-liners besides showing off.
> They are not even fun in most cases.

[...]

> I think that expressing algorithms with as few characters as possible
> should always be a side-effect of the syntax of a programming
> language resulting from 'making simple things simple and complicated
> things possible' but not a design principle of its own.

I think you're assuming that 'one-liner' means deliberately minimized
code (as in 'code golf'), but it doesn't have to.  Most 'code golf'
involves one-liners, but not all one-liners involve code golf :-)


David

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