From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-06-12T19:45:08+09:00
Subject: Re: a matter of style

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 03:39:47AM +0900, Anthony Martinez wrote:
> 
> From what I've been led to understand, method names consisting of
> multiple words should be named_with_underscores, not namedWithCamelcase.
> 
> `puts' is the same as `print "something\n"'
> 
> Parens can be omitted if it doesn't confuse the parser (or the reader)
> 
> As well, reserve the { } form of blocks to one-liners.
> 
> Taking these into account, instead of writing (from
> http://www.van-gils.org/~bas/bridgehands/deal.rb):
> 
>     bg.suits.each{ |suit|
>         cards = bg.north.cardsOfSuit(suit)
>         print "        #{bg.sortCards(cards)} \n"
>     }
> 
> write something like
> 
>     bg.suits.each do |suit|
>         cards = bg.north.cards_of_suit suit
>         puts "        #{bg.sort_cards(cards)} "
>     end
> 
> Then again, these are highly subjective views, ones that I've absorbed
> from reading other people's ruby and getting into arguments with friends
> :)  Take them with a grain of salt, as I'm not a Ruby expert and thus I
> might be wrong.

Your suggestions are pretty much canonical Ruby style, at first glance at
least.

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