On 7/18/07, Phlip <phlipcpp / yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 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