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Re:Crystal Language by davexunit on Saturday June 06, 2015 @10:42AM (#9670943)
I've been programming in Ruby for years, and the inherent ambiguity proven by the complexity of the parser isn't made better by telling me I'm not thinking right.

Variables and methods are treated differently. I can't pass arguments to a variable, I can't even write foo(), but if it were a method I could. I can't treat variables like any other object because they have different rules applied.

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Re:Crystal Language by jacques_chester on Saturday June 06, 2015 @11:52AM (#9671178)
> I can't pass arguments to a variable

I'm confused -- if you're knowingly invoking a method, why are you unsure whether it's a method or a variable?

I programmed for years in Ruby too. I just accepted a whole bunch of stuff as mysterious and shrugged. It didn't mean the language was ambiguous, I just didn't have any idea of what the actual model was.

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