Whither SmallScript? (was Re: Integer micro-benchmarks)

[Bjorn Pettersen]

> From: Steven D. Majewski [mailto:sdm7g at Virginia.EDU]
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Andrew Hunt wrote:
>
> > I personally like the style and dynacism of Ruby.  For 
> instance, to declare
> > a class that inherits from another class you simply have:
> > 
> > class Foo < Bar
> > 	def myMethod
> > 		File.new ("test.dat", "w") { |f| 
> > 			f.puts "Hello world!"
> > 		}
> > 	end
> > end
> 
> What do the vertical bars around the f  ("|f|") above indicate ? 
> 
> ( Maybe it's those extra non alphanumeric operator looking chars
> that make folks think of Perl -- even if they are used differently, 
> to someone that doesn't read Ruby, it looks like more "line noise".)

It defines a local variable of the enclosing anonymous block (hi Alex :-)
It's similar to how SmallTalk defines variables, which I presume would
explain why they like it (?)

-- bjorn