<i>because some gem developer wanted to be clever</i><p><i>Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you&#x27;re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?</i>
-Brian Kernighan
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brian_Kernighan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brian_Kernighan</a><p>I love Ruby. I hate Rubyistas that make code that&#x27;s impossible for others to read or comprehend. I find the rails source actually pretty good here.<p><i>No it doesn&#x27;t. What is even going on in there?!?</i><p>LOL didn&#x27;t you read lines 385-472 of some_ruby_interpreter_file.c on MRI version 2.2.1p347?<p>...<p>When we&#x27;re looking to write programming languages to make our ability to program more concise and powerful, clever tricks and hacks defeat the purpose. Those belong in the 90&#x27;s and earlier.