This is something I hated about Ruby (which is generally a pretty nice language) - Use parenthesis in your function calls ... or not! It's confusing, especiall

This is something I hated about Ruby (which is generally a pretty nice language) - Use parenthesis in your function calls ... or not! It's confusing, especially when used with other optional things in Ruby - different ways to pass in named values, for instance. It just confuses for no gain.