> Lähettäjä: Johannes Ahl-mann <softpro@gmx.net>
> Aihe: mandatory braces
>
> hi,
>
> i've been playing around with ruby a bit and have a proposal to make.
> i am sure that ruby won't adopt it right away and maybe it goes too much
> against the ruby way. also, if this has been discussed earlier here, i
> apologize for not researching ;-))
>
> if ruby made braces (the round ones ;-) mandatory this would produce
> some very nice effects and break nothing except for backward compatibility
> (i think). regarding the backward compatibility one could even introduce
> a new command-line switch to explicitely activate the "new" syntax.
> a few things would become possible:
>
> - differentiation between method bindings and method applications, i.e.
> "function1(function2)" instead of "function1(method(:function2))
Just skipping the method() step might be enough? The visual cue from
a Symbol would seem to be equivalent to parens, so:
function1(function2) # Calls function1 with the result of function2
function1(:function2) # Calls function1 with a Proc/Method object
> - procedure objects could be treated similarly to functions:
> "myproc()" instead of "myproc.call()"
An overridable operator () would be useful.
> - ruby code would look more uniform, because at the moment the mixing
> of braces and no-braces drives me crazy *gg*
> - on the negative side this would force braces for methods "yield",
> "print", "puts", "break", etc.
> please tell me whether this is a bad idea,
Well, only for the fact that it would mandate extra typing :)
> Johannes
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