From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-10-30T01:04:57+09:00
Subject: Re: "Readability" inflation

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Hi --

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Trans wrote:

>
> Brian Schr=F6der wrote:
>> If you are so bold, I have to chime in again to say that
>>
>>   ary.sort_by :meth
>>
>> reads a lot better than
>>
>>   ary.sort_by.meth
>>
>> because we don't do method chaining here.
>>
>> Sorry, could not resist. ;-)
>
> Ahhhhh... but can you do:
>
>   ary.sort_by.meth(foo, bar, wack!)

Which would mean what?


David

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