From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-06-13T07:03:02+09:00
Subject: Re: a matter of style

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 06:51:54AM +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Jun 12, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 07:59:10PM +0900, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> >>On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Anthony Martinez wrote:
> >>>On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 03:10:49AM +0900, Bas van Gils wrote:
> >>
> >>>As well, reserve the { } form of blocks to one-liners.
> >>
> >>That's going to depend partly on whether you run across the
> >>(relatively rare) case where the precedence difference between {} and
> >>do/end actually matters.  There are also some interesting ideas on
> >>record (see archives) involving blocks with side effects vs. blocks
> >>that just calculate.  But I can't remember which is supposed to be
> >>which :-)
> >
> >I have yet to see a practical case where the precedence actually came
> >into play -- and I suspect that, when I do finally see such a thing,
> >readability would benefit from a refactor so that it doesn't come into
> >play after all.
> 
> assert_not_nil @enum.find do
>   # ... a few lines of search code here ...
> end
> 
> You need to switch block styles, add some parenthesis, or separate  
> the two calls.

Parentheses sound perfectly reasonable to me.

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