From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-10-31T00:37:53+09:00
Subject: Re: method-call style (was Re: Snippet: Tiny Featureless Ruby Web Server)

Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@integ.ru> wrote:

> WDT> This is just my personal style.  When I write network simulations (not
> WDT> Ruby code fragments), I never put () for methods that are defined simply
> WDT> using "attr_reader", but other methods I usually put () to remind
> WDT> me that I am "doing some real action" here.

> i think real difference that you you want to highlight is between pure
> functions and functions which have side-effect

Hi Bulat,

Yes, I agree with you; I think you have made it clearer, similar to Paul's
post.

Regards,

Bill