a Python person's experience with Ruby

[Colin J. Williams]

Steve Howell wrote:>
Thanks for the interesting comparison.

[snip]
>   3) I actually like being able to omit parentheses in
> method definitions and method calls.  In Ruby you can
> express "add(3,5,7)" as both "add(3,5,7)" and "add 3,
> 5, 7."  The latter syntax is obviously more error
> prone, but I don't think I've ever actually gotten bit
> by it, and the code appears more clean to me.
> 
[snip]

I'm not sure that I like add 3, 5, 7

but it would be nice to be able to drop 
the parentheses
when no argument is required.

Thus:         close;
could replace close();

Colin W.