Ruby Impressions

Magnus Lie Hetland mlh at vier.idi.ntnu.no
Fri Jan 11 18:06:54 EST 2002


In article <23891c90.0201100347.19c0a672 at posting.google.com>, Paul Boddie wrote:
>gandy at techie.com (Thomas Gandy) wrote in message news:<752891fc.0201091327.5842485f at posting.google.com>...
>>
>
>[Ruby compared to Python]
[...]
>Although I would probably get used to it eventually, the use of
>"initialize" rather than "__init__" seems to demand more effort (if
>not really any more typing), especially for those of us who don't have
>US English as our first language. ;-)

I believe Ruby provides both initialize and initialise as
alternatives. (Similarly for several other methods I think.)

>Paul


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