From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-12-11T05:05:36+09:00
Subject: Re: OCD, end statements, and vertical space


On Dec 10, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Jay Levitt wrote:

>
> No matter how I space it, either the "end" statements look detached  
> from
> their class, so nesting is hard to follow, or the def looks  
> detached, or
> everything runs together, depending on how many lines are in the  
> routine,
> how long the method name is, how many methods/classes are in a row,  
> etc.

couple comments:

   - in vim, with ruby.vim and matchit, i can simply bounce on % to  
match do/end, module/end, class/end, if/else/end, etc.  this works on  
keywords and, of course, "{}" braces.  the result is that i hardly  
care about balancing ends visually since it's so easy to let my  
editor do it

   - folding compresses vertical space and reduces the problem by at  
least 80%.  are you using a folding editor?  here is what your code  
looks like to me (with some formatting of course)

     http://s3.amazonaws.com/drawohara.com.screenshots/vim.folded.ss. 
49.png
     http://s3.amazonaws.com/drawohara.com.screenshots/vim.folded.ss. 
50.png
     http://s3.amazonaws.com/drawohara.com.screenshots/vim.folded.ss. 
51.png

   as you can see, the problem kind of goes away quickly when you  
simply eliminate the vertical space

>
> I can't find a spacing rule that I like more than 50% of the time.   
> Not 50%
> of the *cases*, mind you - all the cases, just different solutions in
> different moods.  I'm pretty sure I spend 50% of my time deleting and
> re-adding newlines on end statements :)
>
> Has anyone (as obsessive as I am) found a simple, aesthetically  
> pleasing
> pattern to follow?  I like programming to be art, but not  
> Colorforms art.


why not 'space after the "end" except that last one:

module Mod
   class Klass
     def one_method(param1, param2)
       puts
       puts "hello world"
       puts
     end

     def two_method
      puts "hello again"
     end
   end

   class NotherKlass
     def three_method
       puts "hi already"
     end
   end
end

??

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