Ruby

Feature #6513

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) about 13 years ago

=begin 
 First letter of constant is always a capital letter(in Ruby). 
 if you define method: 

   

 def Hi 
     
   1 
   
 end 

 You're not able to use it w/o (): 
   
 Hi 
 it looks up for constant and raises error. only: 
   
 Hi() or send(:Hi) 

 None of code style guides teaches to use capital letters in methods' names. It's not convinient and bad practise. 
 At the same time we use constants(it's modules/classes too) a lot. To access constant we use '(({::}))' '::' 

 The idea is to change the way how ruby looks up: 
 (1) 1) if first letter is capital - looking for constant. if not found - moving directly to step 2 
 (2) 2) looking for local variable and method as we do it now 

 This change will make syntax much more awesome & sexy: 
   
 ActiveSupport::Autoload -> ActiveSupport.Autoload 
   
 class Request < Rack::Request -> class Request < Rack.Request 

 Currently I can give you a hence using this monkey patch: 
 (({class Module 
   class Module 
     alias method_missing const_get 
   
 end 
   
 module A 
     
   module B 
       
     class C 
       end 
     end 
   end 
   
 end 
 #A.B.C instead of A::B::C - awesome?! awesome?!})) 

 For me it is similar to changing hash syntax( => to sym: ''). I know, it is only 1 character less BUT it's 3 visible dots less too :) 
 Thank you for considering this proposal. 
 =end 

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