Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> Bret Pettichord wrote:
>
>> It is a Ruby-specific meta language. It is often used in rdoc. I've seen
>> this lead to lots of confusion.
>>
>> I would express this idea (IO#sync) thus:
>> io.sync = true
>>
>> And the reader would then have to understand that "io" was an instance
>> of the IO class.
>>
>> Bret
>>
>
>
> In my case I believe it would have lead to even more confusion. Maybe I
> could have understood something like
>
> #IO#.sync = true
>
>
Actually we use the alternate i'm suggesting all the time on this list,
when we do
ie.text_field(:id, 'foo').set('bar')
I suspect that people find this easier to understand than
#IE#.text_field(:id, 'foo').set('bar')
Bret
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