From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-05-24T03:24:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Vim's Ruby indenting

On 23/05/05, Nikolai Weibull
<mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> wrote:
> Vincent Foley wrote:
> 
> > However, the myvar = case foo still breaks on the next line.
> 
> I'll add support for this at a later time.  Until then, consider
> rethinking writing code that uses the case statement in this manner,
>         nikolai

I like this kind of code.

a = case b
   when 1: 10
   when 2: 20
   else 50
   end

makes it clear that something is assigned to a. While 

case b
when 1: a = 10
when 2: a = 20
else a = 50
end

does not make this important fact as clear on first sight.

best regards,

Brian

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