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Wow, this is beautiful! Thanks for sharing. Btw I love that Ruby methods return a value, so method chaining works so good. That‘s something I appreciate in Mat

Wow, this is beautiful! Thanks for sharing. Btw I love that Ruby methods return a value, so method chaining works so good. That‘s something I appreciate in Mathematica‘s postfix notation (for instance `x // Sin`), and also what I love in R‘s pipe operator, Unix‘s pipe. So many other languages like Elixir offer it. Unfortunately this does not work out-of-the box in my beloved Python.

dan-robertson 6y ago
Do you mean that ruby methods are values and so they can be passed to functions?
- submeta 6y ago
  They return a value, like functions.
  - rexpop 6y ago
    Is this not normal?
    - deleted 6y ago
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    - submeta 6y ago
      No, it is not. Python's `my_list.sort()` will sort the list in-place without returning the sorted list. If I wanted to have a return value (without changing the original list), I'd have to use `sorted(my_list)`.