From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2005-03-11T05:45:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [Job] Ruby Developers in Tokyo, Japan

Whats wrong with just...

def describe
   puts "\
Company  : #{name}
Location : #{location}
Web site : #{web_site}

Brief description :
#{description}

"
end


On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Eric Hodel wrote:

> On 07 Mar 2005, at 06:53, Zev Blut wrote:
>
>>   def describe
>>     puts "Company  : #{name}"
>>     puts "Location : #{location}"
>>     puts "Web site : #{web_site}"
>>     puts "","Brief description :"
>>     puts description, ""
>>   end
>
> I like this better, much cleaner than puts with ',', which I don't see very 
> often.  Also, you could pass this array around everywhere, then join the 
> whole thing up at the end for printing (so you could, say, HTML format it or 
> something).
>
> def describe
>  desc = []
>  desc << "Company  : #{name}"
>  desc << "Location : #{location}"
>  desc << "Web site : #{web_site}"
>  desc << "" << "Brief description :" << description << ""
>  puts desc.join('\n')
> end



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