From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-11-17T05:10:29+09:00
Subject: Re: wondering about #tap



On Nov 16, 2:59 pm, "David A. Black" <dbl...@rubypal.com> wrote:

> 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 :-)

It a far sight better then what people were doing:

    some_expression.
    a_method(a,b,c)

which really sucks.

I like the new form, as long as it's well indented I think it reads
well enough.

T.