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

[Matt Aimonetti]

Ok so I will play the mean team member and tell you that we are seriously not considering supporting something like that as part of the base implementation. Now that doesn't mean that you guys can't create a gem to support that.

- Matt

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On Feb 12, 2011, at 16:35, Rich Morin <rdm at cfcl.com> wrote:

> At 11:01 AM +1300 2/13/11, Arthur Gunn wrote:
>>> Ruby is extremely flexible.  I'm quite sure that some
>>> metaprogramming  could be used to prototype something
>>> for experimentation.
>> 
>> For the sake of experimentation then, here's some ruby
>> code that does that: https://gist.github.com/824163
>> 
>> I don't think that implementing this in macruby would
>> be a terrible idea. ...
> 
> I certainly don't think it's a terrible idea to TRY.  If
> the results are uglier and/or more confusing than normal
> MacRuby, we'll have learned something and can move on.
> 
> The next step, for someone with the time and energy, is
> to pick a working MacRuby example and transliterate the
> code to use this hack.  That will allow folks to assess
> both the performance and the appearance of the hack.
> 
> -r
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