From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-03-24T04:27:59+09:00
Subject: Re: questions/suggestions from a Ruby newbie

Hi --

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

> On 3/22/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
>> Hi --
> <snip>
>> I don't think people wanting brackets, as a general matter, is a
>> "bird" in the first place :-)  Consistency isn't really an issue here
>> either, since if isn't a method; and if if were a method, but the "do"
>> were optional, it wouldn't be consistent anyway.
> <snip>
>
> That's a hella confusing paragraph, especially that last sentence.

I'm surprised you find the first sentence clearer than the second, at
least out of context :-)

What I mean is: when it comes to killing two birds with one stone, the
"bird" of people wanting to wrap conditionals in curly braces isn't
something to worry about, because in general they don't.  The second
point is that if "if" were a method, but you could still give it a
block that looked like this:

   if x
     y
   end

with an implicit "do" after "x", then it wouldn't be consistent with
other method calling syntax anyway.  (Also, there's the further issue
of what would happen if x were, itself, a method call.)


David

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