From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-09-21T01:22:59+09:00
Subject: Re: the point of omitting parentheses

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Henrik Schmidt wrote:

> So it's really a question of cost vs. benefits. I think the cost is quite 
> high. Then again, I'm new to Ruby.


i'm going on 7 years of full time ruby and it's bitten less than 5 times.
stick with it a while, if you hate it you have the option of putting parens
together with each and every method call - ruby won't stop you!  ;-)

# exit() if Time.now().send(">" carpal_tunnel())

exit if Time.now > carpal_tunnel

-a
-- 
in order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is
likely to hurt. -- wei wu wei