From: Chris Pine <nemo@...>
Date: 2003-04-18T02:13:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Cryptic -w warning: ambiguous first argument; make sure ...

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From: "ahoward" <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov>

the trend seems to be the poetry mode is evil, and being phased out.  is
that
fair to say?

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and even then would prefer

open (path, 'r')

in case of extreme nesting - for clarity

but i appear to be in the minority ;-)
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I'm with you!  I love poetry mode, but when it doesn't work (increasingly
these days), you really have to cram those parens to the left, because Ruby
will still *think* you're in poetry mode.

Minority or majority, though, you're problem is that you aren't in the
matzority.

:)

Seriously, though, maybe it isn't such a bad idea.  Poetry mode is *really*
difficult to get to work properly all of the time.  You have to rely a great
deal upon precedence rules, and even that is imperfect.  For myself, anyway,
I find that I assume different precedence for some method calls than for
others:

  puts (sin 2) - 1
  sin  (a + b) - 1

I tend to think of `puts' as having lower (or is it higher?  I can never
remember which is which...) precedence.  Am I the only one who thinks this
way?

Chris