[#4595] New block syntax — Daniel Amelang <daniel.amelang@...>

I'm really sorry if this isn't the place to talk about this. I've

25 messages 2005/03/21
[#4606] Re: New block syntax — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/03/21

Hi --

[#4629] Re: New block syntax — "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...> 2005/03/30

On Monday 21 March 2005 16:17, David A. Black wrote:

[#4648] about REXML::Encoding — speakillof <speakillof@...>

Hi.

15 messages 2005/03/31
[#4659] Re: about REXML::Encoding — "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...> 2005/04/04

On Thursday 31 March 2005 09:44, speakillof wrote:

Re: New block syntax

From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2005-03-21 22:43:39 UTC
List: ruby-core #4608
On Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 8:02:00 AM, Alexander wrote:

> On Mar 21, 2005, at 9:49 PM, Berger, Daniel wrote:
>> There's a fine line between terse and obfuscated, and I fear we're
>> slouching towards the latter.

> blah proc { preproc }, proc { postproc }

> looks just plain ugly imo
> anything brought in that improves
> that is nice therefore :)

blah { preproc }, { postproc }

looks equally ugly to me.

Pre- and post-processing are rare cases of method invocation, so I
don't see that they should be scrutinised in an attempt to improve
syntax.

Gavin


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