[LRUG] Topic for Next meeting

[Eleanor]

On 22 May 2006, at 14:21, Matt Jones wrote:
> This is the kind of thing I'd like to discuss.  One of
> the things that makes Ruby interesting is that it has
> an incredibly slick object model but also powerful
> functional programming abilities.  How do these two
> sides interact?  I'd be interested in looking at to
> what degree functional programming changes what we
> really need from OO.

When I started my current project back in January I wrote a brief  
coding standard in which I forbade any functional coding because of  
the abuses it leads to in some languages but I find with Ruby that  
it's very difficult not to adopt a pseudo-functional style. One  
lovely hack I recently developed relies on the fact that exception  
handling is expression-based, allowing exceptions to be used in  
various cunning ways...

Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Systems Developer
http://www.telnic.org/