From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-10-26T19:03:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23416] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

Paul Prescod wrote:
> Emiliano wrote:
> > 
> >...
> > 
> > That's not to say you can't enforce coding standards for other
> > languages, but for Python it's been a clear decision to make it part
> > of the language, and many people appearantly see a benefit to this.
> > 
> > And you can't enforce a coding standard everywhere. 
> 
> The Python library adheres to a formal coding standard outlined by
> Guido! I have to shift to that standard when I code for the standard
> library. Really, Python solves *one* of many coding standard issues:
> where to put the curly braces. To treat this as a major argument either
> for or against Python is ridiculous in my mind.

All "block-oriented" languages (e.g. not Pascal, C/C++ or Java, but
Modula, Eiffel, Sather and Ruby) don't have the problem, too.
You always have an open block which you have to end with an "end"
statement.

In C you've many choices:

  // (1) 
  if ( cond ) {
    stmt
  }

  // (2)
  if ( cond ) 
  {
    stmt
  }

  // (3) 
  if ( cond ) 
    {
    stmt
    }

  // (3) 
  if ( cond ) 
    {
      stmt
    }

  // or as one-liner:

  if ( cond ) { stmt }

  if ( cond ) stmt

Whereas Ruby only supports:

  if cond
    stmt
  end

  # or the one-line version:

  if cond then stmt end


Regards,

  Michael



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