From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-06-16T13:45:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16530] Re: Smalltalk vs. Ruby

> I just like it
> when block delimiters are nice and lined up on the left, and indented,
> because it lets me take in a lot more code in a glance.

Precisely.

Of course, you *could* always use a backslash for line continuation...

my_method  \
{ |x|
#...
}

Yes, more line noise.

The route I've taken is to "let Ruby be Ruby." I'm training my eyes
to see an "end" as corresponding to an "if" (as well as many others).

This helps me to read my friends' C code as well:

My way:

if (x)
{
...
}
else
{
...
}

Their way:

if (x) {
...
} else {
...
}
 


Hal