From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-11-05T05:12:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Some comments on new 1.9 features

On Nov 4, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>
>
>> On Nov 4, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
>>
>
>
>>>  class Foo
>>>    def foo; "foo" ;;
>>>  end
>>>
>
>
>> To save one character?
>>
>> class Foo
>>   def foo; "foo" end
>> end
>>
>
> Hey!  I didn�t say that it was great.  I just showed what I thought  
> was
> the rationale behind having ;; in Ruby.  Don't blame me for its
> existance.

I didn't mean to blame anyone.  I was just trying to understand.  :)

> Anyway, it�s not about saving one character.  It�s about
> having the ; have a better counterpart than end in this particular
> instance.

For a fitting counterpart, I like

class Foo
   def foo() "foo" end
end

James Edward Gray II