From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-05-28T22:00:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Numeric#of

il Thu, 27 May 2004 05:23:12 GMT, Martin DeMello
<martindemello@yahoo.com> ha scritto::


>> >i must say that idea of a collecting block syntax is a nice one...
>> 
>> please, no more syntax :)

Well, I'd love ruby to stay simple. I have this ugly feeling of ruby
becoming perlish in the bad way, i.e. adding new syntax, new
mistetyous operators and so on. Just think of how many new things
we'll see in Ruby2.. Key:val literals, val:default arguments,
@_variables.. 

And, in the end, everybody is going to hate syntax (sooner or later),
that's why people gets happy with LISP (sooner or later ;)

>What do you have against syntax? (:
>
>>  I believe that in the case a collecting/non collecting dychotomy
>> should exist it should be something at the convention level, like !
>> for dangerous methods
>
>Add % to the list of acceptable method name suffixes? (I'd say we've
>pretty thoroughly colonised the keyboard by now - good free symbols are
>hard to find.)
>

not necessarily a new symbol (I'm against stuff that is not obvious).
But something like: collecting_times/times colllecting_each/each and
so on, would be nice. 
Surely not 'collecting' but something on the line. Now I just need to
find a good name, I'm sure I can get it in the next few decades..