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JRuby: Why Add Syntax When You Have Ruby Posted: Sep 28, 2006 6:35 PM
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A question came up this morning on the JRuby Users mailing list about a feature Jython and Groovy support: constructors that initialize bean attributes. The bottom line is that this kind of syntactic sugar in other languages can easily be added to Ruby through various techniques, and so features like field-initializing constructors don't need to be part of the core language or any of the implementations. Does anyone still wonder why I love this language?

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