From: "Jörg W Mittag" <JoergWMittag+Usenet@...>
Date: 2009-05-15T07:30:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [bikeshed] Syntactic sugar idea

Daniel DeLorme wrote:
> Gregory Brown wrote:
>> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> wrote:
>>> Well, you never know... Matz *did* add the Symbol#to_proc conversion in
>>> 1.9 and also the foo\n.bar "fluent interface" syntax. So apparently
>>> trivial changes *do* make their way into core... sometimes.
>> But Symbol#to_proc is not a parser change. It's just using an existing
>> hook that has been around in Ruby 1.8
> But the fluent interface change *is* a parser change. My point was just 
> that seemingly trivial requests *can* make it into the core, whether 
> they're a syntax change or not.

Was that fluent interface syntax really a request? I cannot remember
anyone asking for it. I do, however, vividly recall various petitions
to *remove* that change.

jwm