From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2002-08-11T08:27:16+09:00
Subject: Re: def sqr x = x * x end


"Harry Ohlsen" <harryo@zip.com.au> wrote in message
news:200208110906.22947.harryo@zip.com.au...
> On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 08:47, you wrote:
> > I find
> >
> > def sqr x = x * x end
> >
> > nicer than
> >
> > def sqr x ; x * x end
>
> Surely, though, the first implies the method has a side-effect of changing
the
> value of x, which is obviously not the intention of the function.  In
fact,
> what's the point of doing an assignment whose value you never use?

Right, I was drawing parallels to another language without thinking
Comparisons only go so far.

def sqr(x) x * x end

is also nice, and it works.

Mikkel