Topher Cyll has written an outstanding article for Ruby Code & Style[0].
"If It's Not Nailed Down, Steal It: Pattern Matching, S-Expressions, and Domain Specific Languages in Ruby."
Summary:
There's a whole world of language features that we sometimes miss out on as Rubyists, such as pattern matching, S-expressions, and external domain-specific languages. But the good news is that we can have them, too, as long as we're not afraid to steal a few things first.
Take a gander, post some comments, and keep having fun with Ruby.
A big thanks to Topher, and thanks also to the RC&S advisory board and editors for helping get this out.
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[0] http://www.artima.com/rubycs/articles/patterns_sexp_dsls.html
James Britt
Editor-in-Chief, Ruby Code & Style
Not a comment on the article yet, as I haven't got that far in (what
I've seen so far, looks great, though!). I did notice however that the
something in the formatting engine is messing with some of the code
samples. For example, a line that I assume should look like this:
return 1 if n == 0 || n == 1
Looks instead like this:
return 1 if n 0 || n 1
Just FYI...
Jacob Fugal
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On 5/23/06, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
Topher Cyll has written an outstanding article for Ruby Code & Style[0].
"If It's Not Nailed Down, Steal It: Pattern Matching, S-Expressions, and
Domain Specific Languages in Ruby."
Great article! Finally, I see what s-exps are about.
This is a terrific article. Thanks for sharing.
James Edward Gray II
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On May 23, 2006, at 2:26 PM, James Britt wrote:
Topher Cyll has written an outstanding article for Ruby Code & Style[0].
Jacob Fugal wrote:
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Not a comment on the article yet, as I haven't got that far in (what
I've seen so far, looks great, though!). I did notice however that the
something in the formatting engine is messing with some of the code
samples. For example, a line that I assume should look like this:
return 1 if n == 0 || n == 1
Looks instead like this:
return 1 if n 0 || n 1
Thanks! I'll go get that sorted out.
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James Britt