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draegtun on July 16, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I Like Ruby

Unfortunately though you are potentially adding subtle bugs here which can only be caught at run time.

To avoid excessive test coverage it would be more pragmatic to do:

  backtrack = (consequence.signifies? :block_end) ? false : true

But that's not as easy to read :(

mahmud on July 16, 2010 [–]

I didn't reply to that one-liner because it is a one-liner.

A lot of software engineering lore crumbles into tautologies or is completely obviated when you're working at the microscopic level.

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