From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-12-02T07:07:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Rite, Block locals and Autovivification

il Tue, 2 Dec 2003 06:35:18 +0900, John Carter
<john.carter@tait.co.nz> ha scritto::

>Perl has what may be an evil solution block locals.
>
>Certainly maximal surprise but Does What I Mean....


Just my personal feeling.. but I'd hope to avoid stuff like this in
ruby.
It is fun, powerful and absolutely intrinsic and hard to understand.
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I'm not saying this is really bad, just I'd prefer this does'nt
appear.
I strongly believe 'explicit is better than implicit'. 
plus, a single line:
    map, count,weight={},0,1
would make this work. Not so much a big cost for me :) 


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If you're going to say 'no, let me explain, this is really clean and
intuitive' please consider that i really think this is hard to grasp
:)