On 30 Nov 2013, at 5:34 pm, Oren Ben-Kiki <o...@ben-kiki.org> wrote:
> I find `do` syntax form is vital for DSL-ish code. Getting rid of it makes a
> lot of code look downright ugly. I'd rather it used a more Ruby-ish notation
> though, I find that putting the `do` far away from the `{ ... }` doesn't read
> well. `foo(....) do |...| { ... }` would have made more sense for me (think
> of `do` as a macro-ish binary operation injecting the proc into the function
> on the left). But the current form is acceptable
This really is an important point. I would recommend folks look at Shoes
(http://shoesrb.com/) for an example of how Ruby’s block syntax can help create
beautiful APIs.
~Brendan
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