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A comment on Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004). Parent comment

Re:Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004) by cutler on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @07:46PM (#25064927)
.... and Perl and Smalltalk, the latter arguably being the greater influence.
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Re:Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004) by masklinn on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:05AM (#25067912)
Smalltalk did not have the ?/! delineation that GP is specifically talking about. Not that Ruby used it consistently (it was largely just for enumerators e.g. Array#push rather than Array#push!).
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