From: Robert Dober Date: 2009-02-19T00:37:37+09:00 Subject: Re: What are your favorite Ruby features? On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Juan Zanos wrote: >> >> This has nothing to do with other programming languages, you should >> have learned that in elementary school during your math classes. >> >> Thanks >> >> Michal >> > > > Michal, > > Did you look at the message to which I was replying? Were parentheses > being used to group things together? No. They were not. They were being > used to distinguish a single argument from a function name. In what > elementary school should I have learned that use of parentheses? I agree with you here, Juan. We are of course not talking about parentheses which are *needed* and IIRC we learned in math classes to leave away all parentheses which were *not needed*. Robert -- There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there. ~ A.A. Milne (from Winnie-the-Pooh)