From: "Jan E." Date: 2012-10-25T04:32:18+09:00 Subject: Re: Calling a method foo() or an object foo.method_call_here - both Marc Heiler wrote in post #1080984: >> If you find yourself using a lot of global methods, >> I think there's generally something wrong. > > That is unspecific. I mean, what exactly is wrong here. I think you might be using the wrong language. If you want to program with functions and view the "object." part as nothing but an annoying prefix to the function names, I don't really see the point of using an object oriented language. That's like buying jazz music and saying that you don't like the sound of trumpets. You insist on extremely short names, which makes absolutely no sense to me. How often are you calling those methods in your code? 1000 times? I've never heard this argument, because usually the length of code is *not* determined by the length of variable names but by the general structure (which sounds rather repitituous in your case, because you said you have different methods with the same very long parameter list). This all sounds very strange to me. You still haven't said what you're trying to do. Your methods sound like you're generating HTML elements? Then maybe a template engine is what you're looking for? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.