From: "DEBAUN, STEVE [Seminis/2400]" Date: 2006-06-22T00:08:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Using parenthesis/barackets in ruby > > Since you asked... The following is much more readable to me than your > > example. > > Minor updates to satisfy my own readability scale: > (snip) FORE!!! def print_dir(path) Dir.foreach(path) do |f| puts "#{File.directory?(f) ? '[dir]' : ' '*5} #{f}" end end In response to one of the comments in the OP, I think addiction to parens is unhealthy and should be cured. This, coming from a ?: junkie. sd