From: Kyle Rawlins <rawlins@...>
Date: 2002-07-24T06:09:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax "surprise"


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On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:46:37AM +0900, Mike Hall wrote:
> 	obj.method a, b, c {|i| xyz}
>   vs
> 	obj.method a b c {|i| xyz}

Wouldn't this add a significant amount of ambiguity and confusion?  what if=
 a
is a function that takes two arguments?  what if the second is optional?  e=
tc
etc.  In a language like ruby this would be a surprise, at least to me.  It
also implies that there is currying going on when there isn't, at least to
users of things like ml and haskell (though if there was, it might mitigate=
 the
confusion - and be less and less like ruby).

-kyle

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