From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2000-12-17T23:57:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7507] Re: flatten_by(n)

>>>>> "D" == David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

D>                                         (Whose .sig was it
D> that says something about gaining functionality by deleting
D> code?)

  "I know I'm on the right track when by deleting code I'm adding
   functionality."

 I can delete ~20 lines from parse.y to give the possibility to write
 "stupid" :-) thing like this

    toto(*a, b, a, *b)

 but I don't like this patch because ruby make something too complex :-)
 because in this case the node generated are

  FCALL toto 
    ARGSCAT
      ARGSPUSH
        ARGSPUSH
          ARGSCAT
            ZARRAY
            LVAR a
          LVAR b
        LVAR a
      LVAR b

 :-)


Guy Decoux