Joshua Ballanco <jballanc / gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Joey Zhou <yimutang / gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 1. It makes people happy, writing less code, and no harm to readability. > > Personally, I would like to hear more on how having another operator for new > Rubyists to learn does not harm readability? One of the oft-cited advantages > of Ruby vs Perl is that Perl so often devolves into characters > indistinguishable from line-noise. Completely agreed. A smaller syntax and fewer operators improves readability and learnability in my experience[1]. I think pronounce-ability is a good factor to readability, too. Code is written once and read many times (often by people who are not the author), so optimize for readability. [1] - I've done a fair bit of Perl, but also languages with small syntaxes like AWK and C.