[#51329] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7677][Open] YAML load mode that does instantiate Ruby — "trans (Thomas Sawyer)" <transfire@...>
7 messages
2013/01/09
[#51347] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7679][Open] IRB history is broken — "zzak (Zachary Scott)" <zachary@...>
15 messages
2013/01/10
[#51348] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7680][Open] IRB autocompletion doesn't autocomplete methods — "zzak (Zachary Scott)" <zachary@...>
8 messages
2013/01/10
[#51389] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7688][Open] Error hiding with rb_rescue() on Comparable#==, #coerce and others — "Eregon (Benoit Daloze)" <redmine@...>
34 messages
2013/01/11
[#59674] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7688] Error hiding with rb_rescue() on Comparable#==, #coerce and others
— "marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)" <ruby-core@...>
2014/01/09
[#59675] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7688] Error hiding with rb_rescue() on Comparable#==, #coerce and others
— "marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)" <ruby-core@...>
2014/01/09
[#59679] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #7688] Error hiding with rb_rescue() on Comparable#==, #coerce and others
— "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@...>
2014/01/10
On 2014/01/10 7:42, marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune) wrote:
[#51391] [ANN] Implementer Meeting — Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@...>
Hey everyone,
9 messages
2013/01/11
[#51421] Re: [ANN] Implementer Meeting
— Mark Rada <markrada26@...>
2013/01/14
Hello Aaron,
[#51431] Re: [ANN] Implementer Meeting
— Marc-Andre Lafortune <ruby-core-mailing-list@...>
2013/01/14
I'm worried about issues with Enumerator::Lazy. Should we discuss this at
[#51399] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7689][Open] Crash @enumerator.so with ruby 1.9.3/thin/RoR 3.2.11 — "saepia (Marcin Lewandowski)" <marcin@...>
6 messages
2013/01/12
[#51441] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7699][Open] rubyspec failed: BigDecimal#divmod Can be reversed with * and + — "mrkn (Kenta Murata)" <muraken@...>
8 messages
2013/01/15
[#51453] [REMINDER] Implemeter Meeting — Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@...>
Hey everyone,
5 messages
2013/01/15
[#51454] [CommonRuby - Feature #7701][Open] Non-optional (required) keyword args — "headius (Charles Nutter)" <headius@...>
31 messages
2013/01/15
[#53256] [CommonRuby - Feature #7701] Non-optional (required) keyword args
— "headius (Charles Nutter)" <headius@...>
2013/03/09
[#51496] Ruby 2.0 Meeting Schedule — Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@...>
At the Implemeters Meeting, we talked about meeting again in 2 weeks
5 messages
2013/01/17
[#51497] Schedule next developer meeting — Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@...>
At the last meeting, we agreed upon having another meeting four weeks
5 messages
2013/01/17
[#51499] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7712][Open] Add .txt extensions to all plain-text documentation files for Windows users — "postmodern (Hal Brodigan)" <postmodern.mod3@...>
9 messages
2013/01/18
[#51545] Haiku port problem — Paulo Geyer <paulogeyer@...>
I'm trying to port ruby 1.9.3-p347 to Haiku (http://www.haiku-os.org/)
5 messages
2013/01/21
[#51578] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7729][Open] __dir__ returns a absolute dir path — "authorNari (Narihiro Nakamura)" <authorNari@...>
8 messages
2013/01/23
[#51623] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7739][Open] Define Hash#| as Hash#reverse_merge in Rails — "alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov)" <redmine@...>
24 messages
2013/01/24
[#51726] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7751][Open] How to encapsulate File.delete and File.rename into one 'transaction'? — "mghomn (Justin Peal)" <yujianbin@...>
5 messages
2013/01/29
[#51735] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7752][Open] Rational/Float/Fixnum/Bignum `.to_s.encoding` is US-ASCII — "coffeejunk (Maximilian Haack)" <mxhaack@...>
6 messages
2013/01/29
[ruby-core:51212] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7644][Open] In refinements, change "using" keyword to a less generic word.
From:
"boris_stitnicky (Boris Stitnicky)" <boris@...>
Date:
2013-01-01 14:03:34 UTC
List:
ruby-core #51212
Issue #7644 has been reported by boris_stitnicky (Boris Stitnicky).
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Feature #7644: In refinements, change "using" keyword to a less generic word.
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7644
Author: boris_stitnicky (Boris Stitnicky)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Target version:
The upcoming feature of refinements is bringing two new keyords: "refine Something" and "using Something". While I am definitely late to come up with this, I realized that due to natural linguistic reasons, keyword "using" should be replaced another word. This suggestion is not about functionality, only about the keyword choice. I firmly believe that "using", while tempting and beautiful, is ultimately wrong keyword choice, imposing undue strain on English speaking about code in comments, documentation, and all developer communication.
Rationale: Ruby keywords, especially verbs (include, extend, raise, return, yield, ...) and nouns (class, module, ...) constrain speaking about code. One eg. cannot freely speak about modules in the general sense ("My program has modular structure consisting of three main modules blah blah..."), due to the danger of confusion that we are speaking about three Module instances. This has to be circumvented by saying eg. "My program consists of three main orthogonal parts blah blah..."). Now if Ruby 2.1 would introduce keyword "part", we would have to reformulate the sentence to eg. "My program consists of three main independent subprograms..." What am I getting at is, that PLEEEASE don't take "use", "using", "usage" etc. away from meeee! I don't want write poetry in the documentation!
Suggested solution: One simple solution would be to replace the participle "using Something" by a keyword selected from eg. prepositions or adverbs, such as "with Something". If verb or noun is desired, it should not constrain natural speech too much, such as "gimmick Something", or "delve Something".
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