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• Calm down dear, it's only programming (Score:1)

  by pdcawley (485)

  I've never quite understood the RSpec crowd's obsession with renaming things, but as a library RSpec kicks the default ruby Test::Unit's arse so comprehensively otherwise.
  
  Nor do I understand the style that has them use do ... end style blocks to wrap code that, at it's best looks declarative. It's not impossible to write:
  
  
describe SomeClass {
    it "should be instantiable" {
        SomeClass.new.should_not be_nil
    }
}

  
  which seems a good deal cleaner. Many ruby progr
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Aristotle (5147)

    Many ruby programmers appear to be blind to ugliness of do declaration end though.

    Goes with the territory. Lisp programmers don’t even see the parentheses any more, nor do XML people consciously notice all the angle brackets. I used to be blind to the iffiness of Perl’s deref syntax.
    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Dom2 (2981)

      I find tr -d '()' makes most lisp a lot more readable. :-).
      • Re:Calm down dear, it's only programming (Score:1)

        by Aristotle (5147) <pagaltzis@gmx.de> on 2008.02.08 4:48 (#60965) Homepage Journal

        Let me guess: for Perl that would be tr -cd '[:alnum:]'?

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