[MacRuby-devel] book idea - "making it look like Ruby"

[Rich Morin]

One of my concerns with both MacRuby and JRuby is
that the resulting code doesn't look much like Ruby.
As Mark Twain put it:

  ... If man could be crossed with the cat it would
  improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

While skimming "Using JRuby", I saw a few suggestions
about ways to alias Java calls (etc) to make the code
look more like Ruby.  Unfortunately, there wasn't as
much of this as I would have liked and it wasn't in a
single chapter, for easy reference.

Regardless of HotCocoa's failings, it certainly helps
to make MacRuby look more like Ruby than Objective-C.
Even if HC isn't covered, per se, I'd like to see some
coverage of these sorts of style issues.

-r
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