On 11/30/13 7:35 PM, Brendan Zabarauskas wrote:
On 30 Nov 2013, at 5:34 pm, Oren Ben-Kiki <o...@ben-kiki.org> wrote:I find `do` syntax form is vital for DSL-ish code. Getting rid of it
makes a lot of code look downright ugly. I'd rather it used a more
Ruby-ish notation though, I find that putting the `do` far away from the
`{ ... }` doesn't read well. `foo(....) do |...| { ... }` would have
made more sense for me (think of `do` as a macro-ish binary operation
injecting the proc into the function on the left). But the current form
is acceptable
This really is an important point. I would recommend folks look at
Shoes (http://shoesrb.com/) for an example of how Ruby’s block syntax can help create beautiful APIs.Ruby is a totally different language without two kinds of closures. The problem is not the sugar, it's the inference.
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