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02/28/2018

07:02 PM Ruby Feature #14463: Allow comments to precede dots in member expressions

shevegen (Robert A. Heiler) wrote:
> > I still find it very odd that it's inconsistent.
> ...
It wasn't more than a month in that I first got bit. Like I said earlier, Ruby isn't my primary language (I started with Java, and JavaScript... isiahmeadows (Isiah Meadows)

02/27/2018

01:06 AM Ruby Feature #14463: Allow comments to precede dots in member expressions

duerst (Martin Dürst) wrote:
> There is extensive discussion on this at #7636. Please check.
I presume you meant #7639...
I never found that due to probably its age and the fact it was in the other project.
I still find it very... isiahmeadows (Isiah Meadows)

12:59 AM Ruby Feature #14555 (Open): OpenStruct performance doesn't have to be slow...

Coming from a JS background, it seems super baffling that OpenStruct is *incredibly* slow\*, slower than even a standard hash. When I looked at the implementation, I could see one very odd design choice: the implementation didn't even *t... isiahmeadows (Isiah Meadows)

02/11/2018

02:48 AM Ruby Feature #14463 (Open): Allow comments to precede dots in member expressions

I, coming from other languages, find it *extremely* odd that the first three are considered valid, but the fourth is a syntax error (tested in Ruby 2.3.4 + 2.5.0, Rubocop's parser for 2.3):
~~~ ruby
# 1
foo = -> {}
foo.
call
... isiahmeadows (Isiah Meadows)