From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-11-17T11:56:05+09:00
Subject: Re: wondering about #tap



On Nov 16, 9:43 pm, "Austin Ziegler" <halosta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/16/07, Trans <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 16, 2:59 pm, "David A. Black" <dbl...@rubypal.com> wrote:
> > >    some_expression
> > >    .a_method(a,b,c)
>
> > > is that it's confusing and not worth creating an exception to the
> > > otherwise consistent rules about linebreaks. That's why I say I'd like
> > > to see it backed out of 1.9 (which I say partly to bring us back to
> > > the topic of Ruby development :-)
>
> > It a far sight better then what people were doing:
>
> >     some_expression.
> >     a_method(a,b,c)
>
> > which really sucks.
>
> Meh.
>
> I've never understood why people do:
>     foo(bar
>           , baz
>           , quux)

Don't think I even seen that before.

> I far prefer:
>
>    foo(bar,
>         baz,
>         quux)

And I agree.

> Yeah, the former is *theoretically* easier to add to and remove from,
> but it's ugly as Medusa. I'm with Mr Black.

I'm not really worried about adding to it , it's just too easy to miss
the dot altogether as one scans code, down and from left to right.
With the comma it's not as bad b/c you know from the start to expect
arguments.

T.