From: Bulat Ziganshin Date: 2002-10-31T15:55:50+09:00 Subject: Re: method-call style (was Re: Snippet: Tiny Featureless Ruby Web Server) Hello dblack, Wednesday, October 30, 2002, 6:42:25 PM, you wrote: >> > i think real difference that you you want to highlight is between pure >> > functions and functions which have side-effect dcsn> Aren't there cases where that might change, if the implementation changes? dcsn> It seems that () is serving as a comment, potentially a fragile one. it's some like redefining Fixnum.+ :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@integ.ru