I am aware that the visitor design pattern has been around in some form for years and so what I'm about to write in this post is not particularly innovative or special in any way. I just thought I'd discuss something I've been pondering for a while in my attempts to come up with interesting refactorings for the DuctileJ project.
On my travels around the programming language community on-line I found many references to Chris Smith's review of types entitled "What to Know Before Debating Type Systems". Unfortunately, it was almost as if it had disappeared from the face of the planet. Of course, nothing ever really disappears from the Internet and I was able to summon it forth from the recesses of the Internet using Way Back Machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080822101209/http://www.pphsg.org/cdsmith/t...
I'm hoping to contribute to the DuctileJ project at some point over the next few weeks.
This is just the latest in the litany of things wrong with Ruby. Of course I know that or and || have different precedences, but that doesn't make it right.
I'm sure there's stuff out there to do this already, but I want to administer a Google Code project dammit! And here it is...
This is used throughout my personal web sites and thought I'd share it with the world!
Quite a grandiose title, to be sure, and I'm sure it won't quite live up to all the hype, but I'm pretty pleased with it anyway: katyandrichard.com. Here's a list of its salient features:
It's important that this blog doesn't get stale, right?