From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2005-08-30T22:43:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Aesthetics of while ... do ... end versus while ...: ... end

Nikolai Weibull wrote:

>OK, this is really quite lame, but what do you people prefer:
>
>while <test> do <something> end
>
>or
>
>while <test>: <something> end
>
>?
>
>The latter is shorter, but the puncutation sometimes meshes badly with
>the test.  Any insights?,
>        nikolai
>
>  
>
I could've sworn you could ommit the "do", as in:

  while fred is barney
    frobnicate(womble, fluff)
  end

if you do yourself some good and resist the urge to golf the loop on a 
single line.

David Vallner
(hate not having Ruby and an internet connection on the same computer)