From: "naruse (Yui NARUSE)" <naruse@...>
Date: 2012-10-25T20:58:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:48270] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6265][Feedback] Remove 'useless' 'concatenation' syntax


Issue #6265 has been updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE).

Status changed from Assigned to Feedback
Assignee deleted (drbrain (Eric Hodel))

Since affected libraries are so many, the fix should be done by the proposer.

Moreover I think this insists that string concatenation is not useless.
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Feature #6265: Remove 'useless' 'concatenation' syntax
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6265#change-31561

Author: rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)
Status: Feedback
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: core
Target version: 2.0.0


What is wrong with this code:

some_method 'argument1', 'argument2' 'argument3'

Yes, the missing colon, but it is not always easy to notice that...

What is this ('concatenation' 'syntax') useful for?

Why writing ('some ' 'concatenation') instead of 'some concatenation'?

A missing colon between string arguments can lead to some bugs that may be hard to find, specially if the arguments are optional.

And I can't see any useful case where this allowed syntax for concatenation would help.


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