From: "rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)" Date: 2012-04-01T00:49:41+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:44009] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6222] Use ++ to connect statements Issue #6222 has been updated by rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas). Guoliang, my issue with "(a; return b) if condition?" is that I don't find it readable and would prefer to read "a then b if condition?" instead. But I don't think that "a \\ return if condition?" is more readable than the currently allowed approach. In fact I prefer the current one to "\\" which is very unintuitive. This is not a matter of just finding some operator that wouldn't break backward compatibilities. This is about readability. ---------------------------------------- Feature #6222: Use ++ to connect statements https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6222#change-25539 Author: gcao (Guoliang Cao) Status: Rejected Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: core Target version: I propose to use ++ to connect two or multiple statements, e.g. do_this ++ do_that ++ do_something It is equivalent to (do_this; do_that; do_something) but more readable. It can be used to replace below idiom do_something and return if condition with do_something ++ return if condition The current way is very error prone because do_something might return false/nil in some cases and cause problems. And new Ruby programmers might not understand the meaning behind this idiom and mimic it blindly. I noticed someone proposed 'then' for same purpose (See http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6201) but is postponed to 3.0 because it is already a keyword. I like 'then' too but if it is not acceptable due to backward compatibility issue, then '++' is a good alternative. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/