On 7/18/07, Phlip <phlipcpp / yahoo.com> wrote: > > Please reserve the term "syntactic sugar" for cutesy systems that don't > provide for lean and incredibly expressive statements that scale very well! First derogatory references to "monkey-patching" and now this - whatever happened to the spirit of ruby? I thought we *liked* syntactic sugar (otherwise we'd all just go use lisp). martin