From: Vladimir Van Bauenhoffer <cluny_gisslaren@...>
Date: 2011-09-13T05:50:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Any downsides to writing paranthesises?

.serialhex .. wrote in post #1021524:
> while there isn't anything implicitly *wrong* with usingparens all
> over the place, IMO (and in most ruby-ists opinion probably) an
> overabundance of parens looks ugly.  case in point:
>
> ```
> "foo".to_a().length()
> # vs
> "foo".to_a.length
> ```
>
> the first, with the un-needed parens is kind of ugly, the second, not
> so much.  (in fact, the fact that i *must* include the parens with
> functions that take no arguments infuriates me to no end!  it's like
> ending every line with a freaking semicolon!!! OOHHHH!!!! STAB
> PEOPLE!!!!!!)
>
> but in the end, it's your code, do what you will
> hex

I agree that having to write empty paranthesises is not all that great 
and that is not something I would do in Ruby. I mean that I like to 
write them in places like:

Dir.glob("*txt")
array.delete_at(1)

in other words, after methods and the like.

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