I don't see why that module would be of any use, other than a gimmick. Imo, all it does is decrease readability, kind've like the old days of GOTO 15.
Kirk On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Julio Cesar Ody <[email protected]>wrote: > > At one stage I seriously thought about implementing ButFirst.pm in > Ruby. I couldn't think of a nice way that would make it work as nicely > as in Perl, but who knows, maybe in 1.9. > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Chris Lloyd > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Julio, my man, you have just inspired me to learn Perl. That is awesome. > > I personally love the Hash syntax. > > { > > 'start' => 'end' > > }.each{|target, destination| `ln -s #{target} #{destination}` } > > { > > Klass => :method > > }.collect{|k,m| k.send(m) } > > It's just a beautiful way of signifying all sorts of things. Though Obie > > beat me to it. Similarly, I also like how Ruby only has two > > standard implementations of collections, not 11. > > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Perryn Fowler <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> > Symbol-to-proc, and the use of `&` to coerce things to procs: > >> > > >> > [1,2,3,4,5].select(&:odd?) > >> > >> personally I have never liked this. > >> > >> It is one of those idioms where you have to know what it does to know > >> what it does. I prefer readability over terseness every time. > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > chrislloyd.com.au > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
