Bret Pettichord wrote:
> 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
Maybe you are right, but I would easily be fooled by the first one, but
suspect there is something strange with the second. I will try to
respect your likings here of course.
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