[samtheprogram]

Just because it’s a different syntax than you’re used to reading in another language doesn’t make it ugly. If you’re used to reading it and work in the language regularly, it actually looks quite clean.

This sounds like a Windows user who can’t stand macOS because they don’t know where anything is.

Your post downvote edit assumes your opinion here is objective. It isn’t.

[tomlin]

Parentheses as pipes is what you do when you’ve backed yourself into a corner.

Ruby has decided (for some reason?) to use two ways to declare.

Function(param, param)

and

{ |param, param| }

why? What is a good reason for this?

It would be an anti pattern in design, not sure why Ruby gets a special hall pass.

[klibertp]

   collect: [ :keyAndValue | (keyAndValue splitAt: '=') last ].

is why.

EDIT: (it's been a few months since I used it, so I) made a mistake in the syntax (declared local variable instead of a formal block argument), it's fixed now.

[tomlin]

You might as well have leaned on the keyboard, it wouldn’t look much different. This is not readable code.