New article at RC&S: If It's Not Nailed Down, Steal It: Patt

Topher Cyll has written an outstanding article for Ruby Code & Style[0].

“If It’s Not Nailed Down, Steal It: Pattern Matching, S-Expressions, and
Domain Specific Languages in Ruby.”

Summary:
There’s a whole world of language features that we sometimes miss out on
as Rubyists, such as pattern matching, S-expressions, and external
domain-specific languages. But the good news is that we can have them,
too, as long as we’re not afraid to steal a few things first.

Take a gander, post some comments, and keep having fun with Ruby.

A big thanks to Topher, and thanks also to the RC&S advisory board and
editors for helping get this out.

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[0] artima - If It's Not Nailed Down, Steal It

James B.
Editor-in-Chief, Ruby Code & Style

On 5/23/06, James B. [email protected] wrote:

Topher Cyll has written an outstanding article for Ruby Code & Style[0].

“If It’s Not Nailed Down, Steal It: Pattern Matching, S-Expressions, and
Domain Specific Languages in Ruby.”

Not a comment on the article yet, as I haven’t got that far in (what
I’ve seen so far, looks great, though!). I did notice however that the
something in the formatting engine is messing with some of the code
samples. For example, a line that I assume should look like this:

return 1 if n == 0 || n == 1

Looks instead like this:

return 1 if n 0 || n 1

Just FYI…

Jacob F.

Jacob F. wrote:

return 1 if n 0 || n 1

:frowning:

Thanks! I’ll go get that sorted out.

Great article! Finally, I see what s-exps are about.

On May 23, 2006, at 2:26 PM, James B. wrote:

Topher Cyll has written an outstanding article for Ruby Code & Style
[0].

This is a terrific article. Thanks for sharing.

James Edward G. II