[BioPython] Off-topic: BioRuby

[Jeffrey Chang]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Andrew Dalke wrote:

> Briefly, since I don't want to get into detail, I'm
> looking at http://bioruby.org/ftp/bio/sequence.rb

>   def initialize(str)
>     if str
>       super.downcase!
>       super.tr!('u', 't')
>     end
>   end


What I've always found striking about Ruby is that maz decided not to use
the ':' character to introduce blocks, since that was one of the few curse
word characters that Guido felt was important enough to keep!

Jeff