RE: [GD-General] Objective Caml (was Ruby opinions)

[Jesse J. <jes...@mi...>]

At 12:23 PM -0800 12/27/01, Brian Hook wrote:
>Or the belief that languages shouldn't have
>preprocessors because the C preprocessor was so gross; inevitably you
>lose major functionality like "#ifdef 0/#endif" and the language
>designers defend it to the end.

Not necessarily. For example, Ruby allows you to stick executable 
code outside method definitions so you can do stuff like this:

if want_foo_method() # add foo() to our class if it's OK
    def foo(arg1, arg2)    # the foo method
       # code goes here
    end
end

I'm no Ruby guru yet, but it wouldn't surprise me if you could even 
do things like use a loop instead of an if statement and add a bunch 
of similar foo1, foo2, etc methods.

   -- Jesse