WIP: Braceless Ruby

[marcusdots]

Short description

It is unsafe to use braces as it confuses programmers of non LISP dialects. See for instance
https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox-server/blob/main/src/clj/puppetlabs/services/ca/certificate_authority_core.clj#L150

          (rr/status ((response :outcome) outcomes->codes))))))

Ruby has the ability to be used without braces, parentheses and brackets. For safety reasons we should adopt this new coding style.

[nmburgan]

I’m not sure I agree with this. What we have is standard Ruby syntax, and I’m not sure it’s useful to make a bunch of changes like this to satisfy people who aren’t Ruby developers, and we introduce risk by the large refactor this would require.

[jay7x]

I'd say we should have this defined in our style guide.
UPD: To clarify, I personally don't like to enforce braceless style. I see no problems with foo() syntax. I see no intersections here with Clojure, as those two are very different languages. So this cannot be a reason to enforce dropping braces. Also, there are cases, when braces are required to prevent parser and reader confusion.

[binford2k]

clearly we'll need some updated rubocop configuration for this to pass lint checks

[marcusdots]

@nmburgan @jay7x @binford2k Happy Aprils Fools day! :-)

This code is syntactically correct Ruby-3 and passes ruby -c.
And to be honest, I despise the monster I have created.

[nmburgan]

Ahhhhhhhhh, you got me!!!! Well done @marcusdots !

[nmburgan]

The fact it’s an april fools joke kinda makes me want to merge it now. You convinced me.