From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-03-24T01:05:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about if in Ruby

On 23.03.2007 16:53, David A. Black wrote:
> 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
> 
> :-)

Same here:

17:02:44 [~]: ruby -e 'puts Dir["/usr/lib/ruby/**/*.rb"].inject(0) 
{|c,f| /if\s+begin/ =~ File.read(f) ? c+1 : c}'
0
17:03:10 [~]:

:-)

	robert