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

[Steven D. Majewski]

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".)

-- Steve Majewski