Comments on: Don’t Make Me Think http://addictedtonew.com/archives/156/dont-make-me-think/ John Nunemaker\'s thoughts and such Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:19:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John Nunemaker http://addictedtonew.com/archives/156/dont-make-me-think/comment-page-1/#comment-3123 John Nunemaker Tue, 13 Jun 2006 04:39:31 +0000 http://addictedtonew.com/archives/156/dont-make-me-think/#comment-3123 Well, the '' is a leftover from PHP and I was just showing a wrong way to do it. That is a good point though as I should have used the more Rubyesque nil than single quotes. As to the obviousness of writing easy to use code, I don't believe it is obvious. If it was obvious, all developers would code this way. I've downloaded a few RubyForge projects that accept multiple parameters instead of a Hash. That is actually what prompted me to write this article. Well, the ” is a leftover from PHP and I was just showing a wrong way to do it. That is a good point though as I should have used the more Rubyesque nil than single quotes.

As to the obviousness of writing easy to use code, I don’t believe it is obvious. If it was obvious, all developers would code this way. I’ve downloaded a few RubyForge projects that accept multiple parameters instead of a Hash. That is actually what prompted me to write this article.

]]> By: Dag Odenhall http://addictedtonew.com/archives/156/dont-make-me-think/comment-page-1/#comment-3119 Dag Odenhall Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:27:24 +0000 http://addictedtonew.com/archives/156/dont-make-me-think/#comment-3119 Isn't this obvious? I use it in any method with either many arguments, or one where many are optional etcetera. Oh, and use "nil" rather than '' :) Isn’t this obvious? I use it in any method with either many arguments, or one where many are optional etcetera. Oh, and use “nil” rather than ” :)

]]> By: Gabe http://addictedtonew.com/archives/156/dont-make-me-think/comment-page-1/#comment-3050 Gabe Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:22:20 +0000 http://addictedtonew.com/archives/156/dont-make-me-think/#comment-3050 I first was introduced to named parameters when I looked into Objective-C for Cocoa programming. The Ruby way of accepting a hash as a final parameter strikes me as a worthwhile bit of magic (I'm generally against magic, which is why I don't like Perl). Named parameters are definitely worth the verbosity. I first was introduced to named parameters when I looked into Objective-C for Cocoa programming. The Ruby way of accepting a hash as a final parameter strikes me as a worthwhile bit of magic (I’m generally against magic, which is why I don’t like Perl). Named parameters are definitely worth the verbosity.

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