From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2007-07-12T10:18:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Beautiful Code : Pity he didn't ask here...

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 08:11 +0900, John Carter wrote:
> I try to write the most readable code that is most readable by someone
> who knows Ruby perfectly well.

Right on.  Today Rich Kilmer showed me some Rails code that Chad Fowler
had written.  It was something like:

some_array.map(&:name)

where some_array was filled with objects that had a name attribute, and
Rails reopened Symbol and added to_proc.  

At first I thought "oh, that's ridiculous".  Five minutes later I
thought "hm, that's rather nice".  Five minutes later I agreed with Rich
that it was very clever and we would start using it everywhere :-)

> Personally I would speak up to them. Scan the libraries for the best
> code Rubiest have to offer in the Ruby idiom.... and spend my time
> explaining the elegance, power and succinctness of it.

Well said!

Yours,

Tom