In my experience the minimize scope of data binding keeps it pretty straightforward.
Amos King Binary Noggin > On Dec 3, 2016, at 07:50, Michał Muskała <mic...@muskala.eu> wrote: > > The ambiguity, that bit me already several times is in the code that looks > like this: > > self = self() > do_something(self) > > Now the self in the second line can be both - calling the function and > accessing variable. Of course it's not confusing in this example because of > it's brevity, but in general it can lead to issues that are very hard to > debug. > > Michał. > >> On 3 Dec 2016, at 14:10, Amos King <a...@binarynoggin.com> wrote: >> >> I prefer being able to use the bare words. It makes refactoring simpler to >> move between a variable and a method which I do regularly. The warning >> seems strange since there isn't an ambiguity that is being decided. I'm on >> board with Dave here. >> >> Amos King >> Binary Noggin >> >>> On Dec 3, 2016, at 00:45, Louis Pilfold <lo...@lpil.uk> wrote: >>> >>> 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. >>> 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. >> >> -- >> 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/1865E0E4-7879-4307-900B-99CEF366091D%40binarynoggin.com. >> 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/1D0E5277-451A-4955-A3FC-D06F05E107E4%40muskala.eu. > 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/15857D16-3830-4916-B233-2CD929719BDF%40binarynoggin.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
