From: Horea Raducan <hraducan@...>
Date: 2009-02-17T01:21:44+09:00
Subject: Re: What are your favorite Ruby features?

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I can tell you what feature/style recommendation I hate the most. Using "_"
instead of camel notation makes the language too verbose. If you want to
give some meaningful names to a method or variable, if you use more than two
underscores, it looks loooooooong. Ruby is so elegant in so many ways, why
do we have to subject ourselves to the ugliness of "_" ? You might say that
nobody is forcing me, but being the purist that I am I want a total
immersion in the language. And it looks like the leaders recommend using
this notation. Is everybody happy with the ugly_like_hell_notation ?

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:13 PM, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Language features aren't gratifying in the same way that food is,
> > though.
> I am glad you realize.
> Now do you really think it is a bad idea to think about modifying our
> approach to what we do in general and programming in Ruby in special?
> Is there anything intrinsically counter productive or maybe even
> stupid in my remark?
> I have the feeling you did not take my suggestion seriously, pity....
>
> Robert
>
>

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