Re: Natural "for" Loop, using Plural / Singular transformations ??
Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com>
30 May 2006 18:40:55 -0400
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| From: | Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | 30 May 2006 18:40:55 -0400 |
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| Keywords: | syntax |
| Posted-Date: | 30 May 2006 18:40:54 EDT |
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 12:51 -0400, olivier.chatelain@gmail.com wrote:
> PS: This idea is ispired by "Ruby on Rails" ORM, using Plural for the
> Database-Tables.
> [OK, what's the plural of deer or sheep?
$ ruby -rubygems -e "require 'active_support' ; ['deer','sheep'].each {|
word| puts word.pluralize }"
deers
sheep
One out of two isn't bad :-)
> Attempts to make English-like programming languages have a long
> history. Cobol was the first and I think the most successful, and
> although it was very successful as a language, giving us stuff like
> C structures, it was pretty much a failure as English. -John]
Debating this feature is pretty much a permathread on the Ruby on Rails
mailing list...
Yours,
Tom
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