From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-11-15T04:50:58+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby indentantion

Hi --

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Nov 14, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Morton Goldberg wrote:
>
>> On Nov 14, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Alfonso wrote:
>> 
>>> I have just started with ruby, and something that I have observed is that 
>>> most of the code is indented with 2 spaces. Having programmed some time 
>>> with C# and python, it's very strange to me so few identation. To me 4 
>>> spaces is much better to read. Is there something like a style guide in 
>>> ruby that says that you should use 2 spaces or is it all right using 4 or 
>>> 3 spaces? What do you use in your code?
>> 
>> Use whatever indentation looks right to you, and don't let anyone bully you 
>> into doing it otherwise. I indent by three spaces and don't intend to 
>> change.
>
> At the risk of being labeled a bully, "When in Rome..."  ;)

That's what it's really about: that there is a traditional coding
style -- a "Rome".  I think it's useful for it to be mentioned, not so
that no one ever deviates from it, but so that people who prefer to
use a language's traditional style will know that Ruby has one.  That
sometimes gets overlooked amidst the excitement of how liberal the
parser is, etc.

One of my favorite things about Rails, and I think one of the
shrewdest things the Rails team has done, is that it's written for the
most part in a very vanilla coding style.  Not all the code is
vanilla, of course :-)  But it blends very well with the standard
library and so forth in style.


David

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