From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-11-17T04:59:22+09:00
Subject: Re: wondering about #tap

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Hi --

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, Wolfgang N=C3=A1dasi-Donner wrote:

> murphy schrieb:
>> Rick DeNatale wrote:
>>> I've got to agree with D.A.B. here.  No offense D.F. but to my eye
>>> that code is ugly and unreadable.
>> I like the code. and I like languages that allow all different
>> coding/programming styles I can imagine.
>
> I agree. It should be up to the user to decide what stile he likes or not=
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> Ruby has a lot of alternative notations, which is very good for several u=
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> scenarios.

It is up to the user to choose -- but it's up to Matz to decide what
the choices are (there's no such thing, after all, as a parser that
can handle the union of all syntaxes from all languages), and Matz has
always encouraged input. My input on this:

   some_expression
   .a_method(a,b,c)

is that it's confusing and not worth creating an exception to the
otherwise consistent rules about linebreaks. That's why I say I'd like
to see it backed out of 1.9 (which I say partly to bring us back to
the topic of Ruby development :-)


David

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