From: Dave Aronson <rubytalk2dave@...>
Date: 2011-09-13T09:23:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Any downsides to writing paranthesises?

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 16:54, Florian Gilcher <flo@andersground.net> wrote:

> So code with
> parenthesis is perfectly fine and widely used. You might have sparked another
> discussion about this now, though :).

Yup.  :-)  Another reason to omit the parens is so that clients don't
need to be tweaked by adding or removing parens if implementation
moves between a function, a public variable (yes, generally bad
practice, but it happens), or a var with an attr_reader (ah, that's
better!).

-Dave

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