From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-09-29T08:47:57+09:00
Subject: Re: New magical version of Symbol.to_proc

dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> 
> I personally dislike "magic dot" stuff like that.  True, it's not
> really magic, since map can return some kind of enumerator that knows
> about the array and is ready to do something to it.  But it still has
> the look and feel of a kind of secret system for communicating what's
> wanted, rather than something that really makes sense when read left
> to right.
> 

Agreed. That is similar to the reason I hate the flip-flop
operator (syntax, not semantics) and even worse, junctions.


Hal