On Aug 12, 7:39 pm, Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net> wrote: > I was overjoyed when I saw that Ruby would let me write 1_048_576.
I'll have to admit that Ruby has a few very interesting ideas, this being one of them. We all know how impossible it can be to eyeball parse a very long number like this. Having the interpretor ignore underscores in a number was very wise indeed! However i really hate the fact that Ruby FORCES you to use OOP. I LOVE OOP, however there are times when you just don't need that level of machinery to solve a problem. A good example is when scripting an API. Most times all you need is a few module level procedures and some simple logic. Try that with Ruby, then try that with Python, you'll be switching to Python in no time! PS: And before any Matz lovers start complaining: Yes, i know you can do procedural programming with ruby HOWEVER it suffers many pitfall due to (1) Ruby's scoping issues and (2) Ruby's explicit module declaration (which is more indirect than the first). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
