You’re right, thanks :) Back to hacking and learning! On 18 nov 2010, at 17:19, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
> Alright chill out people, there is no need for a drama thread. > > For people who don't know Ryan Davis, Ryan is a well known personality of the > Ruby community. > He's a great engineer recognized for his talent and contributions to the > community. However, he is also known to be very passionate about what he > believes in and could be sometimes seen as having a little problem with the > form and the content ;) > > In this case, I do agree with Ryan about the content and I think that his > arguments are right. The final argument being that even if you disagree, you > will find others who strongly believe that this kind of syntax is wrong and > you might find yourself in long arguments with passionate people. > Programming isn't yet a religion, so feel free to disagree and hate Ryan as > much as you want. The point being that now you know that some people see > assigning values in conditionals as major programming sin & hopefully you > understand their view point. > > Let's not get lost in the semantic and/or the potentially trolling form ;) > > Back to hacking and learning! > > - Matt > > > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Eloy Duran <[email protected]> wrote: > I don’t want to discuss this at length, but “clearly an exaggeration” is not > necessarily true. This is an international mailing-list, i.e. not all native > English speakers. As such it's better to refrain from it and instead use > clear language such as your “strongly discouraged, because…”. To me it was > clear that those specific words were an exaggeration, but there definitely > was some judgement being passed in name of ‘our community’, something which I > am not happy to have on this list. > > The gist of it is: anyone should be able to ask any type of question and they > should not have any fear doing so. Something that newbies can have a hard > time with. > > Cheers, > Eloy > > On Nov 18, 2010, at 3:48 PM, Scott Ribe wrote: > > > On Nov 18, 2010, at 3:02 AM, Eloy Duran wrote: > > > >> I see no problem with this, as long as you know what you’re doing (which > >> is with almost anything). Nor have I witnessed a community where ‘beat > >> downs’ are acceptable, it’s certainly not this ML. YMMV. > > > > While "beat down" is clearly an exaggeration, the assignment inside > > condition form is certainly strongly discourage in many communities, > > because it's so easy to type by accident, and sometimes surprisingly hard > > to notice ;-) > > > > -- > > Scott Ribe > > [email protected] > > http://www.elevated-dev.com/ > > (303) 722-0567 voice > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MacRuby-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
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