From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-02-14T09:17:24+09:00
Subject: Re: mandatory braces

Hi --

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, craig duncan wrote:

> I agree (with others) that this exact idea isn't so good.  Why should you 
> have to use parens when a method has no args?  But the one flaw that has 
> bothered me about ruby is that _too much_ flexibility in parsing is allowed. 
> I'd like it if parens were required around a method call's arguments.  The 
> savings in leaving them off i find less than desirable as i (personally) 
> find it _harder_ to parse things out, visually.

The one I stumble on visually is:

   def a b, c, d = e

As for method calls -- I tend to prefer them with parens, but actually
seeing how it plays out in Rails has softened me a little.  You get
things like:

    class Teacher
      has_many :sections
      has_one  :gradebook

etc., where the non-parens allow for a rather nice-looking
pseudo-config-file look.


David

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David A. Black
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