From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-01-17T05:42:24+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby annoyances ... mine is line continuation, what's yours?


On Jan 16, 2008, at 12:44 PM, scooterm@hotmail.com wrote:

>
> puts 'cat :: dog :: elephant :: mouse :: gorilla'.
>     split('::').
>     map{|str| str.strip() }.
>     select{|str| str['o']}.
>     join("\n")

have fun debugging that one - the stack trace from any error on any  
of those lines will come from the same line.  fine for quick hacks,  
but deep method chaining is evil if there is even a remote chance  
that the error will bubble up to a logfile somewhere for some poor  
soul to grok.  anything that makes crazy line chaining even easier  
would probably annoy me

btw

   puts 'cat :: dog :: elephant :: mouse :: gorilla'.scan(/\w*o\w*/)

   dog
   mouse
   gorilla

;-)

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