New to Ruby? Learn about Code blocks, Symbols and Syntactic Sugar
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Wale Olaleye
Feb 19, 2014, 10:09:27 AM2/19/14
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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.
Rick
Feb 19, 2014, 11:12:42 AM2/19/14
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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It has never been retracted, as far as I know.
"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It has never been retracted, as far as I know.
Wale Olaleye
Feb 19, 2014, 8:30:33 PM2/19/14
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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
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