On 8/6/2014 6:09 AM, alister wrote:
On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:34:04 +1200, Gregory Ewing wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
Did I miss a news story? Have the parentesis mines all exploded
causing the price of parenthesis to skyrocket?
The Unicode Consortium has been secretly buying them up for some t
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 05:13:07 + (UTC)
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2014-08-05, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> > Grant Edwards wrote:
> >> Did I miss a news story? Have the parentesis mines all exploded
> >> causing the price of parenthesis to skyrocket?
> >
> > The Unicode Consortium has been secretly b
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:07:58 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Steven D'Aprano
>> wrote:
>>> A
>>> plethora of argument-less methods is a code smell -- that doesn't mean
>>> it's *necessarily* a bad idea, bu
On Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:39:18 -0700, Christian Calderon wrote:
> I have been using python for 4 years now, and I just started learning
> ruby.
> I like that in ruby I don't have to type parenthesis at the end of each
> function call if I don't need to provide extra arguments. I just
> realized righ
On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:34:04 +1200, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Did I miss a news story? Have the parentesis mines all exploded
>> causing the price of parenthesis to skyrocket?
>
> The Unicode Consortium has been secretly buying them up for some time
> now. Pretty soon you wo
On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:07:58 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> A
>> plethora of argument-less methods is a code smell -- that doesn't mean
>> it's *necessarily* a bad idea, but the class design really needs a
>> careful review.
>
> There
On 2014-08-05, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Did I miss a news story? Have the parentesis mines all exploded
>> causing the price of parenthesis to skyrocket?
>
> The Unicode Consortium has been secretly buying them
> up for some time now. Pretty soon you won't be able
> to get c
On 6/08/2014 9:49 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
Christian Calderon writes:
I like that in ruby I don't have to type parenthesis at the end of
each function call if I don't need to provide extra arguments.
Having the same name sometimes refer to “get this as a value” and other
times “call this as a f
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> A
> plethora of argument-less methods is a code smell -- that doesn't mean it's
> *necessarily* a bad idea, but the class design really needs a careful
> review.
There are plenty of no-argument mutator methods, where the name of the
method
Christian Calderon wrote:
> I have been using python for 4 years now, and I just started learning
> ruby. I like that in ruby I don't have to type parenthesis at the end of
> each function call if I don't need to provide extra arguments.
That's one of the things which I dislike most about Ruby.
Christian Calderon writes:
> I like that in ruby I don't have to type parenthesis at the end of
> each function call if I don't need to provide extra arguments.
Whereas I like the opposite: there is a clear syntactic distinction
between “get the value of ‘foo.bar.baz’” versus “get the value retu
Grant Edwards wrote:
Did I miss a news story? Have the parentesis mines all exploded
causing the price of parenthesis to skyrocket?
The Unicode Consortium has been secretly buying them
up for some time now. Pretty soon you won't be able
to get cheap ASCII parentheses any more, only the
fancy h
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Christian Calderon
wrote:
> I have been using python for 4 years now, and I just started learning ruby.
> I like that in ruby I don't have to type parenthesis at the end of each
> function call if I don't need to provide extra arguments. I just realized
> right now
On 2014-08-05, Christian Calderon wrote:
> I have been using python for 4 years now, and I just started learning
> ruby. I like that in ruby I don't have to type parenthesis at the end
> of each function call if I don't need to provide extra arguments.
Did I miss a news story? Have the parentes
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 12:39:18 -0700
Christian Calderon wrote:
> I have been using python for 4 years now, and I just started learning ruby.
> I like that in ruby I don't have to type parenthesis at the end of each
> function call if I don't need to provide extra arguments. I just realized
> right n
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Christian Calderon
wrote:
> I have been using python for 4 years now, and I just started learning ruby.
> I like that in ruby I don't have to type parenthesis at the end of each
> function call if I don't need to provide extra arguments. I just realized
> right now
I have been using python for 4 years now, and I just started learning ruby.
I like that in ruby I don't have to type parenthesis at the end of each
function call if I don't need to provide extra arguments. I just realized
right now that I can do something similar in python, if I make all methods
wi
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