I like to call crab clows 'insert.'
I added, thank you.
What do you call this in Ruby?
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Re: What do you call this in Ruby?
#32This sums up what I dislike most about Scala (which is an even worse offender in this regard). A rule of thumb: if a 10-year-old wouldn't be able to intuitively read the operator, use words.
Written words are symbols as well. What should we do when we don't understand words?
We Google them, which is an impossible task for non-alphabetic symbols. :P
Re: What do you call this in Ruby?
#33Such little imagination... You should learn from your forefathers. Quantity is no substitute for quality. ;) http://search.cpan.org/dist/perlsecret/lib/perlsecret.pod#SY...
It would seem like the forefathers won this round. You've got to love the inchworm on a stick.
Re: What do you call this in Ruby?
#34... is an ellipsis.
! is enunciated as "bang" from BASH parlance, iirc.
Re: What do you call this in Ruby?
#35... is an ellipsis. ! is enunciated as "bang" from BASH parlance, iirc.
thank you, added.
Re: What do you call this in Ruby?
#36This sums up what I dislike most about Scala (which is an even worse offender in this regard). A rule of thumb: if a 10-year-old wouldn't be able to intuitively read the operator, use words.
Written words are symbols as well. What should we do when we don't understand words?
Slippery slope argument.
I like the Litmus test that a ten year old should be able to read them, which means that +, *, / and - are fine but =~> and other nonsense should be banned.
Re: What do you call this in Ruby?
#37stabby lambda is my favorite.
Re: What do you call this in Ruby?
#38This sums up what I dislike most about Scala (which is an even worse offender in this regard). A rule of thumb: if a 10-year-old wouldn't be able to intuitively read the operator, use words.
Pfft try Haskell sometime.
Everything that's even remotely Applicative seems to have a tendency to export 20 variations of .
Then there's Lenses, the coolest line noise you'll ever see.
Re: What do you call this in Ruby?
#39Say what you will about us, but Ruby people get to have the most fun. hops on hipster hashrocket and tribbles off into the sunset
> Pythonists are all "explicit is better than implicit" and Rubists are all like "LOOK AT ME I MADE A BONG OUT OF THIS HAIR DRYER" https://twitter.com/geeksam/status/618828713308753921
"AND CHECK OUT THIS COOL WAY TO TEST IT"
Re: What do you call this in Ruby?
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