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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Using scripting languages for KDE4 main modules
From:       Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date:       2006-10-03 16:15:37
Message-ID: 45228CA9.7020705 () telegraph-road ! org
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Stephen Leaf wrote:
> I'm reading the website once again and it looks like they finally got some 
> better documenters... the examples are MUCH! more readable now.
>
> before it was a bunch of
> square = square*square  while square < 1000
> which is why I said I had to read it backwards.
>   
That's a Perlism which perhaps Ruby could have done without, because it 
can both help readability or degrade it if abused.

> Do they really expect you to use a special character like "»" or am I reading 
> that wrong??
>   
You're reading that wrong :-). Please tell me you're not looking at
the examples of 
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/intro.html ? :-)

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Guillaume
http://telegraph-road.org

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