From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2005-08-16T15:15:52+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby style question

William James schrieb:
> Joe Van Dyk wrote:
>>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.
> 
> What makes you think it's difficult?
> 
> puts "Tom Tidler's Ground".scan(/[TG](r)?([aeiou])/).\
>   flatten.compact.join

In this case you can even omit the backslash. Because of the last dot 
Ruby knows that the statement isn't finished yet.

Regards,
Pit