From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2007-01-11T00:02:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Elements of Ruby Style

"Justin Bailey" <jgbailey@gmail.com> writes:

>  def some_method(arg1, arg)
>    raise "Arg1 cannot be nil" if arg1.nil?
>    raise "Arg1 must be a number" unless arg1.is_a?(Numeric)
>    ...

This seems to be a style thing I only see in my own code, but which I
consider very helpful when reading code: put two spaces before
statement modifiers.

I'd have written:

  def some_method(arg1, arg)
    raise "Arg1 cannot be nil"  if arg1.nil?
    raise "Arg1 must be a number"  unless arg1.is_a?(Numeric)
    ...

(In this case, I'd probably line them up, too...)

Since this is the only place I use two spaces in source code, it
slightly stands out and visually seperates the statement from the
modifier, which is especially important if you don't use syntax
highlighting.

Any comments?

> Justin
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