On Tuesday 03 October 2006 11:15 am, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> 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.
Yes I used it every so often in my perl scripts but as I never saw the other 
versions in the first set of examples I saw I thought that's all ruby could 
do.
>
> > 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 ? :-)
Ok I won't tell you. =)