From: Pistos Christou <jesusrubsyou.5.pistos@...>
Date: 2006-04-07T00:58:04+09:00
Subject: Re: best practices

Jean-Charles Carelli: I always go for a little more verbosity rather 
than sacrifice clarity or readability in an attempt to compress code 
into the most terse articulation.  I use whitespace and 
my-typing-speed-is-fast-enough-to-type-long variable names, and break up 
long lines with newlines and indentation (as per Chiaro Scuro's 
examples).

Jeff Cohen wrote:
> def append_song(title, name, mins, secs)
>   duration = mins.to_i * 60 + secs.to_i
>   song = Song.new title, name
>   songs.append song
> end
> 
> so then the original line way above becomes
> 
>   append_song title, name, mins, secs

This sort of throws up a warning flag for me.  :)  Code like that makes 
it feel like PHP's 
becauseweshyawayfrom_objectsandnamespaces_inthisdomain_wewilldothis_withthesethings( 
args... ), and moves away from myobject.mymethod.myothermethod( args... 
).

I would still keep songs.append song (or songs << song).

Pistos

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