From: Yusuke ENDOH <mame@...>
Date: 2011-01-27T23:12:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34902] Re: make ruby support line continuations ?

Hi,

2011/1/27 Marc Chantreux <khatar@phear.org>:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 04:16:50PM +0900, Vit Ondruch wrote:
>> Ruby code tends to be readable as plain English.
>> You never write punctuation on the beginning of line, so does Ruby.
>
> i heard the same in perl world but my coworkers finally gave a try to my
> coding style: want to write code as natural as possible must serve
> readability and avoid errors. It doesn't in this case:
>
> you can't see the error immediatly in this code


Good point.  I fully agree and like the proposal.

In fact, the same proposal was made at [ruby-core:16240].
And I wrote a patch at [ruby-dev:34393].

But unfortunately, matz said that he disliked the style... [ruby-dev:34395]

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Yusuke Endoh <mame@tsg.ne.jp>