From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-05-14T12:07:09+09:00
Subject: Re: [bikeshed] Syntactic sugar idea

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> wrote:

> Yes, I know, and that was kind of my point. The to_proc conversion
> became popular because people want a shortcut notation for this common
> case, but IMHO map(&:foo) is way uglier than map{.foo}, and as a bonus you
> could even do map{.foo.bar}  :-)

I don't know.   I think they're about the same in terms of looks, and
the former doesn't require changes to the parser.

-greg