Getting rid of self

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Josh C. [email protected]
wrote:

I’m curious whether his opinion is the same for Ruby as it is for Smalltalk.

I asked him and got the answer I expected:

“i don’t see how the forces are any different in Ruby. e.g. C#'s
properties makes the question moot because there’s not cost to ind
ref”

I do think, and responded to him that there were subtle differences in
the forces, like the use of the @ sigil to mark a direct iv access,
but it was pretty much a wash.


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On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Rick DeNatale
[email protected]wrote:

I do think, and responded to him that there were subtle differences in
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Interesting! I’m a little surprised, but I already made my case :slight_smile:
Thanks
for asking for me.