On 12/13/10 11:39 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Stephan Soller"<stephan.sol...@helionweb.de> wrote in message
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On 12.12.2010 18:01, Simen kjaeraas wrote:
Absolutely not. Ruby reads like Yoda-speak, while D is almost plain
English. Had foreach used 'in' instead of the semicolon, only
punctuation and 'ln' would be off.
Unfortunately I have to disagree here. If you have well written Ruby code
(like Ruby on Rails usually provides) it can usually be read like plain
English. That's the reason why I dropped writing documentation comments
for Ruby code: it's just redundant.
This common Ruby idiom is totally Yoda-speak to me:
doSomething unless condition?
The order-of-execution is completely backwards. Plus the "unless" instead of
"if" makes my mind pause to process an "inverted-context" because *now*
seeing a "blah" really means "not", and a "!blah" no longer means "not".
Perl has had a long time to experiment with this, and at least some of
its dominant coding standards unrecommend use of trailing conditions.
Andrei
