From: Luc Heinrich <luc@...>
Date: 2006-02-03T01:19:34+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 28206-28273

On 2 f�vr. 06, at 15:43, Martin DeMello wrote:

> a[1].if?.strip.empty?
> a[1].maybe.strip.empty?
> a[1].and.strip.empty?

How about replacing '.' by something else in those cases ? Something  
with a slightly different semantic, like "send message only if the  
receiver is not nil".

For example, using ':'

if a[1] and a[1].strip.empty?   ==>  if a[1]:strip.empty?
h["key"] and h["key"].dispatch  ==>  h['key']:dispatch

(I've tried with various other characters, ':' is the one which looks  
the best imho)

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