On 2 Jun 2007, at 01:09, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 10:45:33PM +0900, Jacob Burkhart wrote:
>>
>> return it if with:it(v+1) < 10
>>
>> Would be translated by the interpreter into exactly the same thing  
>> as this:
>>
>> with:it(v+1) do
>>   return it if it < 10
>> end
>>
>> which is exactly the same thing as this:
>>
>> with(v+1) do |it|
>>   return it if it < 10
>> end
>
> Yes . . . I was just pointing out that, of those, the third is the  
> only
> one that really seems particularly readable to me in a Ruby context.
>
> Something about with:it(v+1) just doesn't look very readable to  
> me.  It
> might have something to do with the lack of space separating  
> tokens, but
> I'm pretty sure that's not all there is to it.

I tend to agree, although that's because I'd really like Ruby to have  
the 'with' syntactic sugar that VB has. I also much prefer the idea  
of being able to choose my own block variable name rather than being  
stuck with 'it' which to my eye is an ungainly word. It still bothers  
me though that a formulation that's intended to make for a simple  
atomic statement would now cover three lines onscreen...


Ellie

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