From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-05-01T05:07:22+09:00
Subject: Re: how to use curly brackets vs. 'end' in Ruby

From: "Robert Klemme" <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
>
> 2006/4/28, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com>:
> > On 4/28/06, Jake McArthur <jake.mcarthur@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > FYI, the most often used convention is to use {} for single line
> > > blocks and do..end for multiline blocks.
> >
> > This is an oft-used convention, but it is probably wrong.
> 
> I wonder how a convention can be wrong. This may sound like linguistic
> nitpicking, but the whole point of a convention seems to be that it's
> adhered to. It just "is" but can't be right or wrong IMHO. There might
> be more and less usable and easier and more complicate conventions -
> but right or wrong?

You know Robert, I was in complete agreement with you - until
I remembered Hungarian Notation.   <grin>


lpszRegards,

Bill