From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2005-03-24T11:09:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Credit Card Verification as an exercise

Jeffrey Moss wrote:

> They were good suggestions, I haven't quite adjusted to ruby, still in a 
> perl mindset. That's what I meant. I'm trying to free my mind. The perl 
> code was pretty long, maybe over 100 lines, in ruby its like 20, heh heh.

Heh, that's one reason we love it so much. :)

> I leave the "then" off too, I only use then if its a one liner, and in 
> that case I will usually use { }'s
> if there is a CR right after the if line, then its self explanatory I 
> think (and emacs indents the line after so its all good)
> minor details

I guess my habit comes from writing such code:

if items.all? do |item|
   item > 5 and
   more complex checks and
   so on or
   whatever
end then
   do something
end

That was the reason for me generally adapting the 'then' suffixes, I think.