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Daniel Berger

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Nickname: djberg96
Registered: Sep, 2004

Daniel Berger is a Ruby Programmer who also dabbles in C and Perl

Please, just stop with the crappy notation

Posted: Aug 13, 2007 7:33 PM

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Why has the Ruby community collectively decided that crap like "&" and, even worse, "&its", is a good idea? Why do they insist on pretending that Symbol#to_proc is a generic metaprogramming solution, when EVERY SINGLE USE CASE THAT HAS EVER BEEN PRESENTED IS NOTHING BUT A SHORTCUT FOR AN ENUMERABLE METHOD???

GAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

That's it. I'm releasing enumerable-extra this weekend. So instead of this mother loving load of garbage:

'sdfgsdfg foo bazar bara'.sort_by(&its.length)

You get:

'sdfgsdfg foo bazar bara'.sort_by(:length)

You see? That's what you get when you solve *actual* problems.

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