I am one monk who feels strongly about Ruby -- strongly in favor. My main project right now (I'm a teenager -- no job) is in Ruby, so I've gotten to know if fairly well.

As to the lack of documentation. It's true that there's not a lot, but what's out there is good stuff. And the Pragmatic Programmer's guide may be a year old, but it most certainly is not a year out of date. After all, languages don't change that much.

It is possible to receive a block and then pass it on, it's just not introductory guide material. :-) Here's an example 

class Foo
     def initialize #no initialization needed for this class
     end

     def bar(&block)
         self.baz(&block)
     end

     def baz
          yield(3)
     end
end

foo = Foo.new
foo.bar { |n| puts n } # prints "3\n"

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When you talk about adding a local variable that masks calls to an earlier added function of the same name, you forget something: Ruby is an object-oriented langauge. You're supposed to call functions on objects, which can't be confused with a variable. In a class definition, you call one of that class's methods like self.method or like method, which is merely a shortcut for the former. It calls that method with that instance from the class.

This was also discussed at Ruby: An Abbot breaks silencewind. If you haven't checked it out, check it out. It's not better or worse than Perl -- it's different, and I love them both.

elusion : http://matt.diephouse.com

In reply to Re: (OT -- ruby) Re: Re: Favorite programming language, other than Perl: by elusion
in thread Favorite programming language, other than Perl: by Petruchio

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