Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.214.1331187413.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On Thursday, March 08, 2012 00:52:57 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Ary Manzana" <ary at esperanto.org.ar> wrote in message
>> news:jj94mb$1i7v$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> > Here's something I wrote today:
>> >
>> > parent_ids = results.map{|x|
>> > x['_source']['parent_ids']}.flatten.uniq.compact
>> > Hash[Site.find(parent_ids).map{|x| [x.id, x]}]
>>
>> When you format it like that (that is to say, when you *don't* format 
>> it),
>> yea, it's unreadable. Which is why I do such things like this:
>>
>> parent_ids =
>>     results
>>     .map{|x| x['_source']['parent_ids']}
>>     .flatten.uniq
>>     .compactHash[
>>         Site.find(parent_ids).map{|x| [x.id, x]}
>>     ]
>
> I actually tend to find code like that hard to read, because all of the
> operations are inside out in comparison to normal. But since the only
> difference between his example and yours is the formatting, I agree yours 
> is
> easier to read. Still, I'd much prefer if such code didn't use UFCS, since 
> I
> find it much harder to read that way. It's just so backwards.
>

Aside from the problems of excess paren nesting, I tend to think this is 
backwards:

foo(bar(baz(x+2)))

...because the order it's read/written is the complete opposite of the order 
of exectution. First "x+2" is evaluated, then "baz", then "bar", then "foo". 
Ie, it's executed right-to-left even though you read/write it left-to-right. 
Completely backwards. Contrast that with:

(x+2).baz().bar().foo()

...which we may be less accustomed to (unless you think of it like bash 
piping), but in addition to the decrease in nesting, it's written and read 
in the *same* order as exection: left to right. This also means that it's no 
longer the complete reverse of statements which are (sensibly) 
left-to-right:

y = x+2; baz(); bar(); foo();

If I were writing code in Arabic, I would probably like 
"foo(bar(baz(x+2)))". (I would also wonder "What a minute, when did I learn 
Arabic? How did I manage to learn a langauge without even knowing? This is 
really weird! But fun. Wheee!!")