Comments on: def ~; end /2009/12/def-til-end/ Plataformatec's place to talk about Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, and software engineering Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:41:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: Jesse Storimer /2009/12/def-til-end/comment-page-1/#comment-463 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:41:25 +0000 /?p=555#comment-463 Reminds of crazy Haskell syntax, although this is much saner 🙂

http://briancarper.net/blog/real-confusing-haskell

]]> By: Jesse Storimer /2009/12/def-til-end/comment-page-1/#comment-923 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:41:00 +0000 /?p=555#comment-923 Reminds of crazy Haskell syntax, although this is much saner 🙂

http://briancarper.net/blog/real-confusing-haskell

]]> By: Joe Grossberg /2009/12/def-til-end/comment-page-1/#comment-438 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:38:03 +0000 /?p=555#comment-438 This is a neat trick, but not something I believe people should use in practice; I think it makes code unreadable.

If I see +some_string in a codebase, I have to go digging through files to find where it’s monkey-patched and what the method does.

If I run into all_caps(some_string), at least I have a hint as to what it’s doing.

And even better, some_string.upcase is in the standard library and I already know what it does.

And good luck grepping for method names like “+”, “-” and “~” in your source code. :/

So yeah, I’d file this away as fun but impractical.

]]> By: Joe Grossberg /2009/12/def-til-end/comment-page-1/#comment-922 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:38:00 +0000 /?p=555#comment-922 This is a neat trick, but not something I believe people should use in practice; I think it makes code unreadable.

If I see +some_string in a codebase, I have to go digging through files to find where it’s monkey-patched and what the method does.

If I run into all_caps(some_string), at least I have a hint as to what it’s doing.

And even better, some_string.upcase is in the standard library and I already know what it does.

And good luck grepping for method names like “+”, “-” and “~” in your source code. :/

So yeah, I’d file this away as fun but impractical.

]]> By: Jack Dempsey /2009/12/def-til-end/comment-page-1/#comment-437 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:22:37 +0000 /?p=555#comment-437 Reminds me of things you can do with Sequel. Might be a good source of inspiration.

http://sequel.rubyforge.org/

]]> By: Jack Dempsey /2009/12/def-til-end/comment-page-1/#comment-921 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:22:00 +0000 /?p=555#comment-921 Reminds me of things you can do with Sequel. Might be a good source of inspiration.

http://sequel.rubyforge.org/

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