From: Dr Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@...>
Date: 2005-05-28T10:15:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [FYKA] Plz comment

Thomas Kirchner wrote:
> * On May 27 23:45, Dr Balwinder S Dheeman (ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org) wrote:
> 
>>Whichever of above appeals you better? Or do any of you have better 
>>ideas on these? What would you expact more from such a utility?  
>>Feedback of yours shall highly be appreciated.
> 
> 
> Personally, I prefer either matz's way or your third way (where the 
> things inside the block are at the same indentation level).  To me, 
> that's important in clarifying the block.  It lets you know that all 
> elements at this indentation level are of the same structure, whether 
> it's a block, case, if, etc.  If you have the "else" further left than 
> the "rescue", or similar, my eyes would naturally ignore the rescue as 
> part of that semantic block.
> 
> Also, I'll be interested in seeing how your project comes along.  Ruby is 
> naturally beautiful, but I have a tendency to write compact (ugly) code.  
> I think it'd be hard for a utility to beautify code that is ugly not 
> because of its spacing but because of the 
> (compact/ugly/archaic/compressed) style used.

You know me too am a newbie to Ruby as yet, that's why one in while I 
look at Ruby code which others have written. I saw a lot of 
inconsistancy in placing commas, spaces and tabs (even if most of the 
editors now a days come with syntax highlighting and other such 
features) people ignore and, or skip over while concentarting on the 
real target. I would prefer keeping the code as compact as possible

> Just as a simple example - would it turn C-style (if x ? yes : no) into 
> longer if/else blocks?  Things like this are "ugly" because of the 
> concept used, not its placement in the text.  Of course, it's possible to 
> just ignore things like this and beautify the things you're sure about.

I shall try making the 'rindent' as configurable as possible.

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