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It's funny how the article uses parenthesis and brackets as examples of unneccessary 'cruft' that muddles your program's readability, yet to explain a common 'R
by crescentfresh 19y ago
It's funny how the article uses parenthesis and brackets as examples of unneccessary 'cruft' that muddles your program's readability, yet to explain a common 'Rails-ism' the author re-introduces both of them into the sample code to make it more readable.
- kalid 19y agoI'm the author :) Yeah, Ruby certainly has some quirks, especially coming from a C/Java background. I think it's similar to seeing i++ for the first time... you need to separate it into "i = i + 1" when explaining it to newcomers.