From: Pistos Christou <jesusrubsyou.5.pistos@...>
Date: 2006-05-02T01:31:57+09:00
Subject: Re: More explicit Ruby code

Brad wrote:
> Kernel.puts("Print this string")
> 
> instead of this:
> 
> puts "Print this string"

I personally would never put Kernel in front there.  If I'm going to 
qualify puts, it would be to specify the actual thing doing the putting 
(or "receiving" the putting, heh), such as $stderr.puts or 
my_opened_file.puts.  I think putting Kernel in front draws attention to 
something that ought to be left in the background.  It might be akin to 
seeing all the [serif construction lines][1] for every letter in text. 
It also smacks of a lingering attachment to System.out.println.  ;)

My personal style with parentheses is to omit them only with 
visually-single arguments.  In style choices like these, I always try to 
aim for clarity, rather than stick to a rule in all cases.

[1]: http://www.dailyllama.com/news/2002/images/time_bandits_2.jpg

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