I still like Ruby. 15+ years in, I find myself in the camp of not wanting it to change. 25 year old me would have been totally jazzed about the addition of namespaces in Ruby 3.5/4.0. 40 year old me wants namespaces to get off my Ruby lawn.
Only thing I've come near that gave me as much joy was Elixir, and I simply didn't have time to pick it up more than the most generic basics.
my mind just likes a.any? {|x| x.someCondition? }
Ruby 3.5 will introduce a new language keyword "namespace" that scopes behavior to that namespace.
class Foo
def foo; puts "foo"; end
end
namespace Bar
class Foo
def foo; puts "bar"; end
end
Foo.new.foo #=> "bar"
end
Foo.new.foo #=> "foo"
This is intended for isolated code loading similar to "modules" in Python or ES6, but I am worried it will be abused badly. I'm also unsure whether they will add a "use Namespace" construct...
See here: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21311