From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-05-13T01:11:31+09:00
Subject: Re: {} vs begin/end [was Re: object loops and what they return]


David A. Black said:

> It looks like you can only claim to be mainstream if you use *both*
> styles :-)  Or am I reasoning wrongly?

Since value returning blocks tend to be shorter than side-effecting
blocks[1], I'm not surprised that there is a correlation between the two
styles.

I guess do/end vs {} is Ruby's version of the "One True Brace Style"
argument.


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[1] I have no proof of this ... so shoot me.