Wednesday, February 19, 2014
It appears the opposite happened with Ruby, as we rarely use Semi-Colons! The point of the article is to point out Ruby features to reduce confusion for new Rubyist.
-- -Wale
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:12:42 AM UTC-5, Rick wrote:
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:12:42 AM UTC-5, Rick wrote:
This announcement surfaced back in the late seventies:
"CAUTION: The Programmer General has advised that excessive use of Syntactic Sugar has been shown to lead to Hardening of the Semi-Colon."
It has never been retracted, as far as I know.
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 10:09:27 AM UTC-5, Wale Olaleye wrote:A few months ago I wrote a post about Ruby Code blocks, Symbols and Syntactic Sugar. They serve as a gentle introduction to 3 interesting Ruby features. If you are coming from a different language, or a new to programming, I think you will find the post interesting. Feel free to leave a comment on my blog if you like this.
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