From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-10-12T02:04:00+09:00
Subject: Re: quality of error messages

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 08:36:27 +0900, markus@reality.com
<markus@reality.com> wrote:
>      That said, it really doesn't hurt as bad as you'd think it would,
> since the main thing people differ on is where to put the closing token
> (e.g., does the "end" or "}" go at the indentation of the enclosed block
> or the inclosing block) and that issue vanishes if you don't have closing
> tokens.  I suspect that (if warned) most rubiests would find:
> 
>    class My_class
>        attr_reader :an_atribute
>        def initialize a1,a2
>             @an_attribute = a1
>             @counter = 0
>             @limit = a2
>        def feed_the_lion food
>             raise "Roar" unless food.respond_to? :digestible_by
>             raise "Grrr" unless food.digestible_by self
>             digest food
> 
>     waffle = My_class.new :fred,14
> 
> perfectly readable (and writable) without all the syntactic clutter/noise.

I don't find it readable at all.

-austin
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