From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2007-05-20T21:43:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Parser or Programmer? (was: Re: Why not adopt "Python Style" indentation for Ruby?)

On 5/20/07, Dick Davies <rasputnik@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20/05/07, znmeb@cesmail.net <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> > Quoting Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>:
>
> > > Besides of that, personally I don't find the current Ruby syntax hard to
> > > read.  Do you have some examples where you feel that reading Ruby is
> > > made hard(er) because of the liberties you mention?
>
> > I can think of three examples right off the top of my head: Rails, Rake and
> > RSpec. There's something really eerie about seeing code like that. You *know*
> > it works, but you can't figure out why or how.
>
> And you think replacing do/end with indentation would help?
>
> I really can't see how - could you give an example?
>

Let's try:

describe 'myself'
  it 'should be readable'
    lambda
      @reader.reading
    .should change
      @reader.knowledge
    .by(text.amount)


# pretty much impossible, if you ask me :)
# same in usual ruby now

describe 'myself' do
  it 'should be readable'
    lambda{ @reader.reading }.
      should change{ @reader.knowledge }.
      by(text.amount)
  end
end

# well?

>
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