From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-01-05T04:15:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Little Things


ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> i really think people are not seeing the forest for the trees.  the issue with
> send/send! is not the name: it's that the concept of both needing certain
> methods to work a certain way and allowing, even encouraging via the
> popularity of dsl like syntaxes in ruby, that those same methods can be easily
> clobbered sets up a loosey-goosey mess that those of us who require our code
> to run un-attended for months on end get stomach cramps over.

Some how my original response this got lost. I'll just sum it up....

you are right. although with open api's, i think _why pointed us in
another direction: use '/' a la Hpricot and ditch method_missing. but
that doesn't solve the the issue for regular apis, and either we need
to do somethong like prevasives (I think module notation is too long)
or at the VERY LEAST, give these methods uncommon names.

T.