Bruce Eckel wouldn't know why to switch from Python to Ruby

[Chad Perrin]

while in python it would be:
class Foo:
def __init__(slf,foo):
slf.foo=foo

Argh. It looks unfinished. It's asymmetrical, and not in a beautiful
way.

It's shorter than the Ruby example, but it makes my eyes bleed. An
episode of The Apprentice is shorter than The Maltese Falcon, too, but
it's a hell of a lot uglier.

. . at least, for my taste.

When I want short code, I write it in Perl.

 

[gabriele renzi]

Jeff Wood ha scritto:

.. be careful, you're gonna bring down the python coding police ...

Although not a physical requirement of the runtime, you named your first
variable in the class method slf ... the python community would eat you
alive for that ...

They prefer ( and *ALL* their docs make sure to tell you over and over )
that the first parameter of the class method be named self.

.. Dive into python and every other tutorial on the topic actually stops to
make sure you understand this ...

I find it humorous ... and a bit retentive ... but, to each their own.

j.

you're absolutely right, but in my defense I can say that I did write
that becuase I feel the need to explicitly name self dumb. I find it ok
to write self.foo but naming the argument is just useless imho.

 

[gabriele renzi]

Chad Perrin ha scritto:

Argh. It looks unfinished. It's asymmetrical, and not in a beautiful
way.

It's shorter than the Ruby example, but it makes my eyes bleed. An
episode of The Apprentice is shorter than The Maltese Falcon, too, but
it's a hell of a lot uglier.

. . at least, for my taste.

When I want short code, I write it in Perl.

de gustibus non est disputandum

 

[Chad Perrin]

Chad Perrin ha scritto:

de gustibus non est disputandum

Um. Okay?

 

[Robert Klemme]

Um. Okay?

We Germans say "Über Geschmäcker kann man streiten" - interestingly enough
it's the negated translation of the Latin "You cannot argue about
likings"...

robert

 

[Patrick Hurley]

Um. Okay?

Four years of high school (although that was sometime ago now) to the rescu=
e:

In matters of taste there can be no dispute.

Colloquially in English: you say potato, I say potato

 

[Steve Litt]

Four years of high school (although that was sometime ago now) to
the rescue:

In matters of taste there can be no dispute.

Colloquially in English: you say potato, I say potato

Is de gustibus non est disputandum Italian, Latin or something else?
I can think of many threads I'd like to use that phrase in.

SteveT

Steve Litt
http://www.troubleshooters.com
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Jeff Wood]

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latin.

Is de gustibus non est disputandum Italian, Latin or something else?
I can think of many threads I'd like to use that phrase in.

SteveT

Steve Litt
http://www.troubleshooters.com
(e-mail address removed)

--
"Remember. Understand. Believe. Yield! -> http://ruby-lang.org"

Jeff Wood

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[Patrick Hurley]

Oops that was supposed to be four years of high school latin

 

[Paul Duncan]

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. [*]

SteveT

* I don't know Latin but my buddy Google does.

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[Steve Litt]

* Steve Litt ([email protected]) wrote:
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Is de gustibus non est disputandum Italian, Latin or something else?
I can think of many threads I'd like to use that phrase in.

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. [*]

E rubimus codimus

SteveT

Steve Litt
http://www.troubleshooters.com
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Chad Perrin]

* Steve Litt ([email protected]) wrote:
[snipped]

Is de gustibus non est disputandum Italian, Latin or something else?
I can think of many threads I'd like to use that phrase in.

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. [*]

E rubimus codimus

Carpe rubium.

Et tu, Ruby?

Okay, never mind. Forget I said anything. That was really bad.

 

[Alan Garrison]

Carpe rubium.

Et tu, Ruby?

Okay, never mind. Forget I said anything. That was really bad.

Quondo Omni Flunkus Utor Ruby

(with apologies to Red Green fans