From: Robert Klemme Date: 2009-05-14T22:44:12+09:00 Subject: Re: [bikeshed] Syntactic sugar idea 2009/5/14 Charles Oliver Nutter > > Robert Klemme wrote: >> >> We always need to balance cost and benefit.  In this case to me the >> benefit seems to be outweighed by costs whereas the other change can >> have an impact on readability.  YMMV though. > > The cost isn't high. 15 minutes of work in JRuby, probably more in CRuby but not by a lot. That's likely only implementation. Then there is testing, documentation and before that checking that there are no negative effects of the change. If there are - and there seems to be evidence that this is the case in Mark's posting - those negative effects also count as costs... Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/