From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-04-25T23:19:18+09:00
Subject: Re: How to call an object instance's method?

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 11:06:22PM +0900, Michael Campbell wrote:
> > What do people think of that??
> 
> Anything that *requires* poetry mode I'm against, as I'm against
> poetry mode in general.  Maybe I'm just old and crotchety, but it
> seems that it's caused far too many "Huh?"'s, and the 1.8 changing of
> it even moreso.

You mean you would prefer

  while a = gets()
    a.chomp!()
    puts("hello, #{a}")
  end

?