I personally think this is clearer, and I don't feel this is clearer. With this I think it is easier to tell when computation is happening- previously it could be hidden behind what looks like variables.
Cheers, Louis On Sat, 3 Dec 2016, 04:42 Dave Thomas, <d...@pragdave.me> wrote: > I’ve been loving 1.4 for a few weeks now, but I am bugged by the new > warning: > > warning: variable "int" does not exist and is being expanded to "int()", > please use parentheses to > remove the ambiguity or change the variable name > > Partly it is because it makes my code a lot uglier. For example, in > quixir, instead of > > test "two plain types" do > ptest a: int, b: list do > assert is_integer(a) > assert is_list(b) > end > end > > I now have to write: > > test "two plain types" do > ptest a: int(), b: list() do > > > . . . > > Ugh. Even worse, the premise of the warning seems wrong. It assumes int > is a variable, which doesn’t exist. But it *does* know that int is a > function, because if I misspell it and put ()s on, I get a compilation > error. So why can’t it just do that: is a bare name is encountered that > isn’t a variable, just internally tack on the ()s are see what happens. > Which I think is the old way. > > Basically, what compelling problem drove this change? It isn’t an issue I > ever had before, and the change seems to make my code worse. > > Dave > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/22ad983c-0917-4425-abbe-a6e954ae3b61%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/22ad983c-0917-4425-abbe-a6e954ae3b61%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAM-pwt7JgYzWnC6y1-ELHj%2BOeaJDuDCamAxJmktdeYRdLaYFEA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
