From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-05-02T00:11:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Lazy evaluation (evil)

On Saturday, May 1, 2004, 8:49:01 PM, Lionel wrote:

> About Ruby, I must tell I find it hard to see where Ruby is functionnal
> langage. Coding recursivity in ruby is most of the time so uneasy. I
> just wonder, if someone can explain, he'll be welcome.

Ruby has some superficial niceties borrowed from functional languages
(map, filter, etc.) and some deep features inspired by them (lexical
closures), but at the end of the day, it's difficult to say Ruby is
functional when it doesn't have functions :)

Cheers,
Gavin