[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael G Schwern) writes: > If you want a tactile grasp of the "Everything is an object" concept, try > some Ruby.
If you want a tactile grasp of Perl 6, try some Ruby. But I'll be saying a lot more on that later... > A flip through the Ruby builtin methods is nice for building up some envy. :) > http://www.rubycentral.com/book/builtins.html I vaguely object to calling them builtins, as I've objected to similar concepts in Perl 6. They aren't *built in* to the language - you could add another method and the parser wouldn't give a damn - they are methods of the standard libraries that ship with Ruby. This distinction is important, despite what Damian would have you believe. In the same way, the specification of C-as-a-language, its syntax and operators and the stuff that makes it look, act and feel like C, is agnostic of the C standard library. (Even though "ANSI C" specifies both, they are seperable.) This seperability is something I'd like to see thought about a lot more in Perl 6. > There's lots of reasons to use an operator or built-in instead of a method, > but remember to make the consideration first. Don't go grammar happy. Yes, yes, yes. This is what I've been trying to say for a while. -- "If that makes any sense to you, you have a big problem." -- C. Durance, Computer Science 234
