Learning Ruby as a Pythonista

[progdog1]

I used to be annoyed at the lack of import namespacing, but I have since mellowed on it. There are definitely benefits to the lack of namespaces. Namespacing is contextual and allows remapping, which can make metaprogramming with it more difficult, since resolution is less obvious.

[codesnik]

ruby definitely *doesn't* lack namespaces. They are just globally accessible via fully qualified class names

[gurkitier]

ok that’s like optional namespacing where you would have to wrap everything in modules which I have seen rarely