From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-03-23T09:11:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Any guides for good coding in Ruby?

* James Edward Gray II (Mar 22, 2005 23:50):
> Amen!  I don't know who thought up the two space thing, but they were
> out of line.  :)  In Ruby, you don't even need the extra characters to
> keep lines short, generally.  I'm set tabs to four spaces wide, but
> it's definitely tabs all the way.

Messing with the width of tabs is always crazier than using two-space
indents.

I don't see why you would need the extra indent in Ruby anyway, it's
pretty clear without the additional horizontal whitespace.

I began writing Ruby-code with an eight-space tab indent, but it made my
code look chubby (it was wider than it was long).

> And while we're getting things off our chest, it really bugs me when
> people don't keep their code within the 80 character boundary
> guideline.  I've been reading all the links posted in this thread and
> they've all recommended it, but I can sure tell you from running Ruby
> Quiz that not everyone is listening.  ;)

Actually, for the Quiz, 72 would be a better limit, as that works best
for mails.

Seriously, though, the 80 character boundary is a thing of the past.
Terminals (not to mention emulators) can be made wider, 132 being a good
"standard" setting, so it's not even about backwards compatibility
anymore.  I find that I can write code the way I want it if I'm not
constrained to 80 characters per line.  (I only switched to a
132-character-wide terminal about 3 months ago, though, so I may change
my mind yet again.),
        nikolai


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