From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-03-24T00:53:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about if in Ruby

Hi --

On 3/23/07, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 23, 2007, at 9:59 PM, David A. Black wrote:
> >
> > Just for completeness (I'm not recommending it), I'll mention that
> > you can do:
> >
> >  one_thing if begin
> >                      another_thing
> >                      a_third_thing
> >                    end
> >
> >
> > David
>
> Completeness is good. But that is pretty hideous stuff.
> Starting to look like some cryptic C or ambitious BASIC:
> logic spaghetti.

I wouldn't worry too much:

$ find . -name "*.rb" -exec grep "if begin" '{}' ';' | wc -l
       0

:-)


David

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