Damn, I wish rust had that
"Useless syntax sugar": Numbered block parameters in Ruby
Submitted 8 months ago by PythOnRails@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev
https://zverok.space/blog/2023-10-11-syntax-sugar1-numeric-block-args.html
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twelvefloatinghands@lemmy.world 8 months ago
colonial@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It wouldn’t be as relevant, since passing a function or method instead of a closure is much easier in Rust - you can just name it, while Ruby requires you to use the
method
method.So instead of
.map(|res| res.unwrap())
you can do.map(Result::unwrap)
and it’ll Just Work™.jendrik@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Except when Type::Method takes a reference, then it doesn’t just work
TheCee@programming.dev 8 months ago
I’m glad it doesnt.
paperplane@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Swift does, though using the dollar sign rather than underscores
Anders429@programming.dev 8 months ago
I sincerely doubt Rust would ever add something like this.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The liberty to not name things that are obvious.
and that’s yet another way to end up with hard to read code
exussum@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This makes me want to write a function for you to add to numbers where the variables are leftumber and rightnumber, instead of x and y.
Knusper@feddit.de 8 months ago
I do think the unnumbered variant of such anonymous parameters is useful, if you’ve got a team of devs that knows not to misuse them.
In particular, folks who are unexperienced will gladly make massive multi-line transformations, all in one step, and then continue blathering on about
it
or similar, as if everyone knew what they were talking about and there was no potential for ambiguity.This is also particularly annoying, because you rarely read code top-to-bottom. Ideally, you should be able to jump into the middle of any code and start reading, without having to figure out what the regional abbreviations or
it
mean.jeffhykin@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Is it just me or does it feel kinda unclean for it to just support 1 through 9?
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
tbf positional arguments are already bad enough. Now if you’re using over 9 positional args… just take a break, go for a short walk, and maybe you’ll come back with a better plan
bnjmn@programming.dev 8 months ago
OMG looks like Raku
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is ruby the new Perl?
marcos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That deserves an “always has been” meme… But IMO, Ruby outperled Perl since the beginning.
Perl doesn’t let you redefine the syntax so that you can write the same program multiple ways. All it does is to encourage multiple programs to have the same meaning.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I never looked at Ruby, but that doesn’t seem like it would be great for readability (although maybe productivity).
exussum@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And lets you easily write metal languages due to the way you can pass around blocks. Think configuration as code type stuff.