I hope... this is not another feature that is added to Ruby at the sake of the functional programming trend.
Rubycop’s author criticized[0] Ruby 2.7 for losing a direction/vision where Ruby should go (which sparked controversial operators that were quickly removed).
Most of them looks like, at least to me, trying to fit a functional programming features in an inherently object-oriented language to be ‘hip’. Like... the pipeline operator which had strange semantics.
Rubycop’s author criticized[0] Ruby 2.7 for losing a direction/vision where Ruby should go (which sparked controversial operators that were quickly removed).
Most of them looks like, at least to me, trying to fit a functional programming features in an inherently object-oriented language to be ‘hip’. Like... the pipeline operator which had strange semantics.
I hope this isn’t one.
[0] Ruby, Where do We Go Now?: https://metaredux.com/posts/2019/12/06/ruby-where-do-we-go-n...