From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-07-02T00:49:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbol#to_proc is just so beautiful

Hi --

On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, transfire@gmail.com wrote:

>
> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In message "Re: Symbol#to_proc is just so beautiful"
>>     on Sat, 1 Jul 2006 16:56:15 +0900, transfire@gmail.com writes:
>>
>> |No one though this was interesing?
>>
>> Interesting but too radical.  I'm afraid that it's too hard to imagine
>>
>> |>   foo { |x| x.bar }
>>
>> when I see
>>
>> |>   foo.bar
>
> I can see that on first econounter the idea, certainly. And I think the
> same is true when enumerable method returns an enumerator.

Definitely.  I find this:

   array.map.upcase

(if I'm getting the magic enumerator thing right) pretty obscure.  I
mean, the words on the screen more or less describe what's happening,
but the dot syntax feels to me like it's being pushed beyond the
limits of usefulness.


David

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