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This is similar to Kotlin single-expression functions, which are actually pretty useful: fun double(x: Int) = x * 2 https://kotlinlang.org/docs/functions.

by t0mek 3y ago

This is similar to Kotlin single-expression functions, which are actually pretty useful: fun double(x: Int) = x * 2 https://kotlinlang.org/docs/functions.html#single-expression-functions https://kotlinlang.org/docs/functions.html#single-expression... However, in Kotlin there's no single-line constraint, so it's possible to define an expression function e.g. with a long chain of collection methods: `filter().map().findFirst()...`

dragonwriter 3y ago
There's no single line constraint in Ruby, either, as the article mentions; its a single expression, as in Kotlin, not a single line.
adamgordonbell 3y ago
Yeah, I'm a fan of this. Was a bit of fun in scala to see if you could rewrite something to be a single statement. Sometimes the single statement version wasn't clearer, but sometimes it really was. Point free programming takes this to code golf type territory and can be fun as a puzzle if not for real world code. Maybe ruby just doesn't do it well?
MrBuddyCasino 3y ago
One of my least favourite Kotlin features. Breaks the uniformity of method declarations for minuscule gains, making it harder to visually parse a class body quickly.
marcellus23 3y ago
I don't really understand what makes that better than something like (from e.g. Swift): func double(x: Int) -> Int { x * 2 } It just seems less readable because it's introducing not only an additional syntax for declaring functions, but also a secondary meaning for the "=" operator. edit: in my original version of this comment I forgot to add the return type syntax, "-> Int", which Swift needs. I suppose eliding the return type is a bit more terse. You could also assign a closure in Swift to avoid that, like: let double = { (x: Int) in x * 2 } which is about as short as the Kotlin version, and has the advantage of not being "special" in any sense from any other Swift syntax (i.e., it's just assigning a standard closure to a variable).

by t0mek 3y ago

dragonwriter 3y ago

There's no single line constraint in Ruby, either, as the article mentions; its a single expression, as in Kotlin, not a single line.

adamgordonbell 3y ago

Yeah, I'm a fan of this. Was a bit of fun in scala to see if you could rewrite something to be a single statement. Sometimes the single statement version wasn't clearer, but sometimes it really was. Point free programming takes this to code golf type territory and can be fun as a puzzle if not for real world code. Maybe ruby just doesn't do it well?

MrBuddyCasino 3y ago

One of my least favourite Kotlin features. Breaks the uniformity of method declarations for minuscule gains, making it harder to visually parse a class body quickly.

marcellus23 3y ago

I don't really understand what makes that better than something like (from e.g. Swift): func double(x: Int) -> Int { x * 2 } It just seems less readable because it's introducing not only an additional syntax for declaring functions, but also a secondary meaning for the "=" operator. edit: in my original version of this comment I forgot to add the return type syntax, "-> Int", which Swift needs. I suppose eliding the return type is a bit more terse. You could also assign a closure in Swift to avoid that, like: let double = { (x: Int) in x * 2 } which is about as short as the Kotlin version, and has the advantage of not being "special" in any sense from any other Swift syntax (i.e., it's just assigning a standard closure to a variable).