On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:34:22 +0900, Mohammad Khan
<mkhan / lextranet.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 14:36, Jim Weirich wrote:
>> Edgardo Hames said:
>>> I would suggest that once you come up with the top ten list, it
>>> would be really nice if you did post it to the mailing list. I'd
>>> like to forward it to some friends.
>> I'm going to collect responses in a public Ta-Da list at
>> http://jimweirich.tadalist.com/lists/public/14055 (which is
>> already way over 10 items!). Later (possibly this weekend) I'll
>> sort through the collected suggestions, edit them down to my top
>> ten and publish the result.
> Objection on # 2 Everything is *not* object. By believing the
> quote 'in Ruby, Everything is object' already made my life hard.
> :p

Everything *is* an object in Ruby. Variables are labels for objects;
they aren't anything that a programmer can access in any way --
which makes them irrelevant to the consideration.

-austin
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