From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-11-30T02:33:30+09:00
Subject: Re: better idiom for title on an optional list?

On Nov 29, 2007, at 11:25 AM, slothbear wrote:

> I'm still learning Ruby, and most of the time I can find a beautiful
> Ruby idiom that collapses two or more statements into one easy-to-read
> (or learn) idiom, like h[key] ||= 0.  My current project has a lot of
> places where it emits lists if they contain any items, much like this:
>
> unless items.empty?
>   puts "items\n-----"
>   items.each { |item|  puts item }
> end

puts "items",
      "-----",
      items    unless items.empty?

I don't guess that's much better.

It does feel like it should be a separate method to me.

James Edward Gray II