Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, March 08, 2012 23:54:21 deadalnix wrote:
> Le 08/03/2012 07:15, Jonathan M Davis a écrit :
> > 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.
> > 
> > - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> You got tricked by your experience. You are used to read backward. The
> function are written in the order they are executed in the example
> above. This isn't very traditional, and may be the reverse order of what
> people expect due to previous experience, but definitively is the
> forward way.

I mean that it is backwards from what is normal. The result of that is that I 
find it harder to read. So yes, you could say that it's executing "forward," 
since the functions are executed from left-to-right instead of right-to-left, 
but regardless, it's backwards from what is normal and therefore feels very 
backwards to me, which is my point.

- Jonathan M Davis