What's better about Ruby than Python?

[Joe Block]

In article <LJS0b.1252$Ej6.627 at newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
 "Andrew Dalke" <adalke at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Alex:
> > Similarly, you do not tend to see in the
> > Linux community people who are convinced with sufficiently high
> > intensity that case sensitivity in a filesystem is idiocy (I do believe
> > that, but not intensely enough to drop Linux's other advantages:-).
> 
> And fewer who accept, much less understand, Jef Raskin's views
> against a hierarchical file system at all. LEAP-LEAP!
> 
> > To put it another way: I _DO_ have a different viewpoint from the
> > majority of Python users regarding case sensitivity -- I think it's
> > a wart in the language.
> 
> While I agree that the file system should be case insensitive but
> case preserving (making internationalization all that more fun),
> I confess to being fond of the
> 
>    atom = Atom()
> 
> idiom.  I know it breaks down, eg, for a function which returns
> a newly created class, but it's too ingrained in me.

I happen to like

for a in A:
   foo

when processing lists of objects as well as your above example.

jpb