From: Magnus Holm <judofyr@...>
Date: 2011-10-11T00:48:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:40083] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #5400][Open] Remove flip-flops in 2.0

> I have no objection to deletion, but I'm just curious.
> Why do you want to delete it aggressively?
>
> --
> Yusuke Endoh <mame@tsg.ne.jp>

I just want to get rid of complexity in the language.

Currently, flip-flops aren't well known for Rubyists, so I don't feel
comfortable of using them in code. I fear that it won't be readable.
And if you *don't* know them, it's easy to confuse them for literal
ranges, which makes it even more confusing. If it had a distinct
syntax, you would at least realize that you don't know about them, now
you would go "what? a Range literal is always true, no?".