Ok, so, on the one hand, I wasn't trying to be condescending, which is why I didn't say 'but' after 'cute' - the 'cute' was a genuine compliment.
On the other hand, the thread started off with "I've already got stuff in perl that does X and it looks like I'd have to write it myself in ruby", then somebody replied with "this already works in ruby, just use alias" then when I provided an example that wouldn't you showed me how to write a library to support said example in ruby.
So I now know much better 'how to write it myself in ruby', and I am genuinely grateful for that, but it still wasn't an answer to the original question so 'cute' seemed like the appropriate compliment.
The actual answer I was looking for seems to be "people who're bad at ruby will always suggest alias, prepend will handle some cases, and then you can write not that much code if you want the other cases, but there's no perl5+Moo quality experience to be had without implementing at least part of it yourself".
Which is totally fine by me, I just need to talk somebody better than me at ruby into implementing it and then try and convince everybody to upgrade :D
(also, if you have a suggestion for a word other than cute that would express "really pretty even though it doesn't answer the question" while seeming positive rather than negative about this fact I'm all ears)
On the other hand, the thread started off with "I've already got stuff in perl that does X and it looks like I'd have to write it myself in ruby", then somebody replied with "this already works in ruby, just use alias" then when I provided an example that wouldn't you showed me how to write a library to support said example in ruby.
So I now know much better 'how to write it myself in ruby', and I am genuinely grateful for that, but it still wasn't an answer to the original question so 'cute' seemed like the appropriate compliment.
The actual answer I was looking for seems to be "people who're bad at ruby will always suggest alias, prepend will handle some cases, and then you can write not that much code if you want the other cases, but there's no perl5+Moo quality experience to be had without implementing at least part of it yourself".
Which is totally fine by me, I just need to talk somebody better than me at ruby into implementing it and then try and convince everybody to upgrade :D
(also, if you have a suggestion for a word other than cute that would express "really pretty even though it doesn't answer the question" while seeming positive rather than negative about this fact I'm all ears)