From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2005-08-16T14:21:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby style question

Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> Browsing through the Rails code... I see a lot of lines over 80
> characters there!
>
> I always thought that it was good to keep line length below 80
> characters as it helps readability on different devices/screens.  But
> I've found that it's difficult to keep that small a line length
> sometimes.
>
> Your thoughts?

What makes you think it's difficult?

puts "Tom Tidler's Ground".scan(/[TG](r)?([aeiou])/).\
  flatten.compact.join