From: Robert Dober Date: 2009-04-17T00:04:31+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] The "Ruby Best Practices" Collaborative Blog On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Michael Fellinger wrote: >> Q U E S T I O N: >> When we program in Ruby and write >>   File.open( "xxx" ) do | f | f.readlines end >> do we not feel stupid? Do we not have any pride to replace this with >>   File.readlines("xxx") >> ? > > Well, I would feel stupid, but I also don't see this advocated anywhere. Oh it was just an example in the context, please do not take offense. Personally when I discovered the one liner I felt quite stupid for having written the actual three liner all over the places, maybe I am taking programming too seriously, LOL. As I said it was only an example, and, but this gets confusing :(, I meant that normally people want to express themselves nicely.... But wait, maybe this too is a wrong assumption and even if it is not, nicety lies in the eyes of the beholder... R.