From: Paul Robinson <paul@...>
Date: 2006-02-04T08:25:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Indentation vs. "end"s

On 3 Feb 2006, at 21:18, Doug H wrote:

> Thomas Kirchner wrote:
>> * On Feb  4  4:28, Doug H (ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org) wrote:
>>>> (0..10).each do |i|
>>>>   # Do something with i
>>>> end what?
>>>
>>> end do
>>
>> My first reaction was "end each"...  After all, "do" and "end" are  
>> just
>> the keywords.  "end <something>" should refer to the actual construct
>> you're ending, not just a keyword.
>
> You're ending a closure block, which starts with "do".

I've been following this quietly. Just thought I'd drop in a thought  
here. Quietly.

I don't get why you would want that "do" there. It would be a little  
like finishing every paragraph with the statement "I have now  
finished this paragraph". I have now finished this paragraph.

To me, I'm able to track the "end" and see what it matches to.  
Earlier in this thread somebody said if there were more than 3 or 4  
end statements in a row, your code is written incorrectly, and they  
probably have a good point. I really don't see what you're trying to  
do with this - I'd just think we had ended one block, of type unknown  
or unimportant, and now we were starting another "do" block. I have  
now finished this paragraph.

As for punctuation, well, I suspect the people who think stray '}'  
and ';' or ';;' tags everywhere have come here from Perl: a language  
whose sole objective is to find a use for every single symbol on the  
keyboard. It is so un-Ruby when I first saw those mails I wanted to  
make a little pile of sick next to me in disgust. I didn't, but I  
wanted to. A little bit, at least. I have now finished this paragraph.

Keep Ruby where it is, and if you somehow end up writing code that is  
hard to read, you've learnt Ruby wrong and you need to re-write your  
code, simple as that. My Mum says re-factoring makes you strong and  
able to see in the dark, so make sure you do it regularly. I have now  
finished this paragraph.

My 2p. I have now finished this paragraph. I have now finished this e- 
mail.

(apart from the sig)
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Paul Robinson