I’ve got a Ruby book “The Ruby Programming Language” by Flanagan and Matsumoto (or should I say the<\/i> Ruby book?) as a New Year present. I am only starting the reading, so I am going to keep my comments here. This is what I have so far:<\/p>\n
– I don’t like the “end” keyword. It is so Pascal \ud83d\ude42 I would either do away with it altogether, like in Python or come up with something shorter like in C<\/p>\n
– I like a lot the embedded expressions for string formatting: – I am on the fence about “if” and “unless” modifiers that come after<\/i> the expression, as in - I am somewhat puzzled by the octal notation in the character literals. E.g. \"I have #{count} symbols\"<\/code> is so much better than String.Format(\"I have {0} symbols\", count);<\/code>.<\/p>\n
\nRaise Invalid, \"x is too big\" unless x<10<\/code>. It might be closer to the natural language, but overall I don't think this is such a good idea, especially for longer expressions.<\/p>\n\"\\010\"<\/code> means ASCII character 8. Who uses octal in the 21st<\/sup> century?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"