On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 6:35:48 AM UTC-5, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
wrote:
>
> But I find this more consisent:
>
> post[:"dotted.column"].like('zomg%')
>
> than this:
>
> post.__send__(:"dotted.column").like('zomg%')
>
> You could actually support both syntaxes, but if you do so you wouldn't be
> able to support things like this in the future:
>
>
I guess I don't follow, here -- do you mean a column with an actual dot in
its name? I've been working with SQL for over 15 years, and while I know
it's possible to do, I've never encountered a good reason for it. I agree
that the first is more consistent in this case, but this seems like the
edgiest of edge cases -- and, as you said, could be supported with
alternative syntax. Not worried about supporting "like(:column, value)",
personally. I like left to right readability when possible.
>
> With regards to GitHub stars, I wouldn't count much on that. I use GH
> stars as a global "favorites" thing so that I can quickly find some project
> I want to cite or take a closer look in the future. Most GH projects I
> starred I don't actually use.
>
Didn't mean to imply much importance for stars, but as a relative metric,
it seemed moderately useful -- they are as important/unimportant
everywhere. ;)
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