On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:34:10 +0100, Nick Sabalausky <a...@a.a> wrote:
"Simen kjaeraas" <simen.kja...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:op.vnl1katxvxi...@biotronic-pc.lan...
so <s...@so.do> wrote:
If we take a look at the very first code example from the talk it
looks
like this:
account.people.each do |person|
puts person.name
end
You could translate this in two ways when translating into D.
First way:
foreach (person ; account.people)
writeln(person.name);
Am i alone thinking D one better here?
Absolutely not. Ruby reads like Yoda-speak, while D is almost plain
English. Had foreach used 'in' instead of the semicolon, only
punctuation and 'ln' would be off.
Unless I'm mistaken, I think I heard somewhere that the original creator
of
Ruby is Japanese. Japanese grammar puts prepositions at the end of
prepositional phrases and verbs at the end of predicates, so I'm guessing
that's why Ruby ended up that way. Although Ruby's function calls are
still
"function/verb first, then params/nouns", so I dunno.
Asking google translate ("for each (person) in (account.people) do
(writeln( person.name ))"):
person の各 account.people は、writeln( person.name ); を行うための
--
Simen
