From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2007-10-27T04:21:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Fluent programming in Ruby

On 10/26/07, David Flanagan <david@davidflanagan.com> wrote:
> Rick: it seems to me that while one dot might be easy to miss, the
> vertical line of dots that occurs (in what I think would be the typical
> usage) would be quite hard to miss.
>

Some languages (call it VB) uses the dot in the with ... end with context:

with record
    .title = "Foo"
    .message = "Bar"
end with

Sometimes with lots of dot there... you could miss one..

Just an analogy, that doesn't mean applies directly to Ruby.

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Luis Lavena
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