Re: Is this a missing feature?

sure here's the ruby page: http://www.ruby-lang.org/ here's another ruby site: http://www.rubycentral.com/ there's also a really good book you can find info about here: http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/index.html it's not really used much yet anywhere except japan, where it's actually overtaken python in popularity! later lux Josh G wrote:

What's this ruby? Care to send the list a URL so we can go have a look for ourselves?

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I sense much beer in you. Beer leads to intoxication, intoxication to hangovers, and hangovers to... suffering. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lux" <me@simian.ca> To: <creinig@mayn.de> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:51 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Is this a missing feature?

But the feature is useless :)

Here, I removed the reference, so we can stop fussing over it (it wasn't

the

question to begin with), and here's an example of a potential use for this

(a stupid example, but still...). I'm not weighing out the benefits of

references, I'm striving to achieve the cleanest and most elegant code I

can, because the larger the project, the more code you have to read, and

the uglier it can get.

That's where a language like Ruby excels. There's less syntactical crap,

it's very easy to read, and it's caused me to consider switching to eRuby

(like mod_perl, allows <% ruby this, ruby that %> in your html) because it

is structurally easier and more geared towards larger projects.

(that last statement will probably get me murdered on a PHP list)

But honestly, the only problem is finding a host running eRuby that I

don't

have to maintain myself. I'm lazy, after all.

later,

lux

<?php

    function a ($hash, $text = "") {

       $attr_text = "";

       while (list ($k, $v) = each ($hash)) {

          $attr_text .= " $k=\"$v\"";

       }

       return "<a$attr_text>$text</a>";

    }

    function img ($hash) {

       $attr_text = "";

       while (list ($k, $v) = each ($hash)) {

         $attr_text .= " $k=\"$v\"";

       }

       return "<img$attr_text />";

    }

    // works this way

    $attrs = array (

       "href" => "http://www.google.com/",

       "target" => "_blank"

    );

    echo a ($attrs, "Visit Google!");

    echo "\n\n";

    // also this way (thanx teodor!)

    echo a ($attrs = array (

         "href" => "http://www.google.com/",

         "target" => "_blank"

    ), "Visit Google!");

    // ideally, i'd like to say this though...

    // echo a (["href" => "http://www.google.com/", "target" =>

"_blank"], "Visit Google!");

    // what also doesn't work

    // echo a (array("href" => "http://www.google.com/", "target" =>

"_blank"), "Visit Google!");

    echo "\n\n";

    // another example

    echo a ($attrs = array ("href" => "http://www.google.com/"),

         img ($attrs = array (

             "src" => "http://www.google.com/images/title_homepage4.gif",

             "alt" => "Visit Google!",

             "border" => "0")

         )

    );

    /* now ideally, this could be written much more cleanly, perhaps...

    echo a(['href' => [http://www.google.com/'],

         img(['src' =>

'http://www.google.com/images/title_homepage4.gif', 'alt' => 'Visit

Google!', 'border' => '0'])

    );

    */

?> --

John Luxford

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e: lux@simian.ca

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