From: Henrik Schmidt <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-09-21T03:20:17+09:00
Subject: Re: the point of omitting parentheses

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> 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.

Good to know. I don't really see it as a major problem. I was just 
trying to get a handle on the reasoning behind the design choice.

> 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!  ;-)

I tend to stick with coding conventions, so if everyone else starts 
doing it, I will as well :) I'm not convinced that Ruby will be the OOP 
language to rule all OOP languages, but it is full of interesting ideas, 
many of which I haven't seen before, so just learning about it helps me 
to become a better programmer, even though I might never use it 
professionally. I don't find it trivial to grasp, though. There is a lot 
of things going on implicitly, which is both good and bad, mostly good I 
think.

Anyway, thanks for the explanations everyone. I got a lot out of it :)

Best Regards,
   Henrik Schmidt