From: furufuru@...
Date: 2006-02-03T19:08:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Indentation vs. "end"s

Rubyist wrote:
[. .  .]
> I haven't liked them. But curly braces may me quite better.
>
I'd vote for curly braces, if it's possible at all.  (Curly braces are
already used for blocks, so I'm not sure it's possible/feasible.)

In fact, "do", "then", "end", etc. make one-liners harder to read
and, as a result, make them less valuable.  Compare,
for example,

    if cond then meth this; func that end  #(1)

with

   if (cond) {meth this; func that}  #(2)

The second is easier to grasp at a glance.  Why?
Because "names" are written in words and grammatical
constructions are written in symbols (except for "if").
Code (1) is harder to read because everything is a word.

In any case, however, I'm quite happy with Ruby.  This issue
is very minor at best.  All I'm saying is, if possible, I prefer
the style of code (2).

Regards,
Ryo