Comment by progne

Just 12 years full time with Ruby here, I'm a noob. But when I see that I could replace

  def initialize(text)
    @text = text
  end

  def inspect
    "#<#{self.class} #{text}>"
  end

  def ==(other)
    other.is_a?(Word) && text == other.text
  end

with

  def initialize(text) = @text = text
  def inspect = "#<#{self.class} #{text}>"
  def ==(other) = other.is_a?(Word) && text == other.text

I start drooling a little. That's 3 lines to replace 11. We have a soft limit on class length of 100 lines, and I like the extra conciseness this allows.

You can also do it like

  define_method(:inspect) { |text| "#<#{self.class} #{text}>" }

and we do that in some places, but that extra verbosity makes for more lines.