Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
I dislike ambiguity.
Me too. But I still like to drop parentheses for some cases.
Omitting parentheses does not always introduce ambiguity.
True enough. Maybe I’ve just been conditioned this way, but I have
found that the cases where that doesn’t happen to not be worth the
inconsistency [when writing my own code].
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Do you use parens for ‘puts’?
Gavin
On Thursday, October 16, 2003, 5:31:55 AM, Michael wrote:
Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
I dislike ambiguity.
Me too. But I still like to drop parentheses for some cases.
Omitting parentheses does not always introduce ambiguity.
True enough. Maybe I’ve just been conditioned this way, but I have
found that the cases where that doesn’t happen to not be worth the
inconsistency [when writing my own code].
True enough. Maybe I’ve just been conditioned this way, but I have
found that the cases where that doesn’t happen to not be worth the
inconsistency [when writing my own code].Do you use parens for ‘puts’?
Gavin
I have. Generally I don’t. I don’t claim perfection, only that I
/generally/ use parens and I dislike poetry mode. Some claim it reduces
noise, to me it is overly ambiguous and reduces the rate at which I am
able to read and write code.
Gavin Sinclair wrote:
On Thursday, October 16, 2003, 5:31:55 AM, Michael wrote:
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Do you use parens for ‘puts’?Gavin
I frequently do. It’s nice to not need to, but usually I include them.
OTOH, I’ve been writing code where parens around arguments were required
for multi-decades. But it makes it easier to figure out what the
interpreter will decide to do. Actually, in most languages I will use
parens as opposed to remembering the operator precedence hierarchy, even
among simple arithmetic operations. Because it’s easier.
Since I started the question I might as well add my 2 cents in.
I prefer the use of parenthesis’s in most cases because it increases the
readability of the code for me. I believe more in refactoring code then
write once, read never code. Although in certain statements in Ruby
I do omit them. These are typically the puts and the print statement.
Just my 2 cents,
-Zach