From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-04-15T03:39:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Comments on Ruby

il 14 Apr 2004 11:24:03 -0700, dejaspam@batkins.com (Bill Atkins) ha
scritto::

>I've been using Ruby for about a month now and it's become my favorite
>language by far.  I don't know if RCR's are still being accepted, but
>I know you're supposed to post changes here before submitting.  So
>here are some things I've noticed.  I don't know if any are worthy of
>change requests, but here they are.

feel free to post rcr to
http://www.rcrchive.net
the discussion about them happens there as well and is saved for
posterity :)

>1.  def ought to return a Method object.  Just because.  Having def
>return an object adds a little bit of consistency, IMO.

I'd prefer a symbol, FWIW 

>2.  Top-level defs should be singleton methods in an Object instance
>dedicated to that file.  It's messy that a top-level def can be called
>on any object.

Not sure I understand, if you want methods not in top �level why don't
you use a module?

>3.  The pipes on a parameter list for a do block ought to be optional.
> I'm not sure about this one.

it makes block impossible to parse, I believe. I suggested removing
just one of the pipes and that mad blocks hard to parse anyway :)


>5.  All special $ variables out to be deprecated or even removed.

they will, just not too soon, google for one of the last ruby-dev
summaries