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"Useless Ruby sugar": Argument forwarding
Or, how the feature that allows to write less names might make the code more explicit.
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A few words on Ruby's type annotations state
...that were written in a military training camp and accidentally grew to 5k words
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There is no such thing as a global method in Ruby
What Ruby’s top-level methods actually are, who they belong to and how they are namespaced
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"Useless Ruby sugar": Endless (one-line) methods
Or, about the virtue of exactly one phrase.