http://www.zorched.net/2006/02/19/ruby-features-youll-wish-you-had-in-other-languages/ Musings of a software developer in Milwaukee, WI. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:07:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.zorched.net/2006/02/19/ruby-features-youll-wish-you-had-in-other-languages/comment-page-1/#comment-348 jo Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:55:20 +0000 http://www.zorched.net/2006/02/19/ruby-features-youll-wish-you-had-in-other-languages/#comment-348 Nice Ruby intro snippets! Similar interesting things btw can be found on http://bigbold.com/snippets/ Nice Ruby intro snippets! Similar interesting things btw can be found on
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]]> http://www.zorched.net/2006/02/19/ruby-features-youll-wish-you-had-in-other-languages/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Zorched.Net » Blog Archive » Ruby 1.8 (today) vs C# 3.0 (some future date) Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:46:35 +0000 http://www.zorched.net/2006/02/19/ruby-features-youll-wish-you-had-in-other-languages/#comment-88 [...] The LINQ implementation ends up relying on the introduction of Lambda functions in the core .NET 3.0 language. Lambda functions are a powerful way of encapsulating a (potentially reusable) block of code. The block of code can then be stored in a variable, passed to other methods, etc. As I discussed in a previous post Ruby Features You’ll Wish You Had In Other Languages these blocks can be used to implement simple patterns like Observer and Strategy. They also come in real handy for doing things like sorting and filtering lists as you’ll see in the example below. [...] [...] The LINQ implementation ends up relying on the introduction of Lambda functions in the core .NET 3.0 language. Lambda functions are a powerful way of encapsulating a (potentially reusable) block of code. The block of code can then be stored in a variable, passed to other methods, etc. As I discussed in a previous post Ruby Features You’ll Wish You Had In Other Languages these blocks can be used to implement simple patterns like Observer and Strategy. They also come in real handy for doing things like sorting and filtering lists as you’ll see in the example below. [...]

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