"this gem is awesome".to_spanish # = "esta joya es impresionante"

Re:"this gem is awesome".to_spanish # = "esta joya es impres... by rbanffy on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @05:44AM (#2095665)

I think your example demonstrates very well why one would yearn for Ruby. The ability to give an extra method to a base class allows you to build very expressive code.

edit: and, BTW, the to_spanish method is not defined in the https://github.com/jimmycuadra/to_lang/blob/master/lib/to_la... module.

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Re:"this gem is awesome".to_spanish # = "esta joya es impres... by troels on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @10:03AM (#2096323)

You're quite right, but in all fairness, the following would be a saner interface in php:

    italian_to_spanish("Ciao mondo");

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Re:"this gem is awesome".to_spanish # = "esta joya es impres... by arethuza on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @07:00AM (#2095856)

Even boring old C# can do that.

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Re:"this gem is awesome".to_spanish # = "esta joya es impres... by ryanpetrich on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @11:45AM (#2096705)

Not true. That's just a compiler trick

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