From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2011-09-13T10:09:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Any downsides to writing paranthesises?


On Sep 12, 2011, at 8:23 PM, Dave Aronson wrote:
> 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!).

I agree with this except that there is no such thing as a 'public variable' in Ruby.  Not sure what you are referring to there.

Gary Wright