Ruby, like Perl, still allows you to redefine your classes at runtime: that alone was enough to ruin the language for me. At least perl warns you when you redefine a function; I got no such warnings from Ruby.

I’m not: advisory is better. Being unable to do nasty things necessarily means you also cannot do powerful things.

Powerful things tend to devolve into nasty things in short order, IMHO. I'm a fan(atic?) of the KISS principle; I'd rather see something be simple, consistant and clunky than powerful, elegant, and full of unexpected pitfalls due to excess cleverness. Don't do something unexpected is my motto: if you have no other recourse, document the hell out of why and how you came to that decision, and what the implications that decision was.

I probably don't live up to my aspirations, but I shun "powerful" code for that reason: it's usually only powerful because it's not very easy to understand, because it does too much at once. Or maybe I'm just too dull to deal with it. *shrug*
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Ytrew

In reply to Re: OO in Perl 5: still inadequate by Anonymous Monk
in thread OO in Perl 5: still inadequate by Aristotle

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