From: Robert Dober Date: 2006-11-09T21:44:20+09:00 Subject: Re: can you rubyfy this? ------=_Part_49941_588921.1163076258795 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 11/8/06, David Vallner wrote: > > Jeff Pritchard wrote: > > Use of do/end > > obviates the need for the usual tug of war on this age-old issue. > > > > Wax earplugs, shaking head in disbelief, and throwing foam bricks at > anyone who thinks spending as much as half a second on discussing brace > alignment styles (read: wasting said time of mine griping about it > pointlessly) works as good for me. > > Java has official guidelines, C# has official guidelines, Ruby's style > is enforced by the parser, Python completely circumvents the issue > altogether by not using brackets as block delimiters. That pretty much > settles the issue in all programming languages I am likely to regularly > use, and anyone trying to argue against official guidelines with me is > summarily told to learn to use the revolutionary feature that is syntax > highlighting and code browsers like the rest of us and get back to work. > > David Vallner I will make this short, and there is no way to discuss this, it is a Go?od given law "Discussion of syntax style is the single most important issue in the Universe." BTW David what do you mean by the four letter word starting with w and ending with ork? :) -- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw ------=_Part_49941_588921.1163076258795--