From: Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...>
Date: 2003-09-12T07:53:04+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: MetaTags 1.0

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 06:34:07 +0900
why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@whytheluckystiff.net> wrote:

>   %_{ ... }
>   %YAML{ ... }
>   YAML { ... }
>   YAML " ... "
>   " ... " & Caml
>   " ... " >> Caml
>   Caml << " ... "
> 
> I still really like %y{ ... } and Nobu introduced a clean patch to do so.
> (offroaders only.)

I've been watching this discussion... the problem is, %x{...} are
ugly.  As in:

    foo(*%w{a b c})

I mean, really, "(*%w{" looks like I'm cursing at ruby.  There are a
number of times I've contemplated using %-literals and just decided
against it because it looked like this.

The latter two are really cool, though... a very good use for >> IMO,
since (afaict) it's generally unused in ruby, and seems very
intuitive at-a-glance.

Just my 2c,

-- 
Ryan Pavlik <rpav@mephle.com>

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