Hi --

On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-1] "Peñá, Botp" wrote:

> But as of now, I am just a newbie. I post more questions than answers.
> Sometimes, I throw questions, which I think might offend people of this list
> (and w/c others might think as nuisance)... that is why I was asking if
> there is an FAQ on the topic  like "Things not expected/needed in Ruby -like
> ++, elseif,...". If there is none, then I will contribute one, since this
> just needs good reading and not good coding :-)

I see what you mean more clearly -- not just a kind of graveyard of
rejected ideas :-)  The "Things Newcomers Should Know" document is
probably a good place for at least some of these things.

There is a danger of getting too defensive, perhaps....  Sometimes it
seems like Ruby is expected to justify every single difference between
itself and other languages (especially Perl and C), one by one, in a
way that (as far as I've seen) no other language is expected to.  But
still, it can't hurt to summarize discussions.

(And liberal mentions of the searchable ruby-talk archive at
http://www.ruby-talk.org can't hurt either :-)


David

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