From: Mike Berrow <mberrow1@...>
Date: 2008-01-31T23:14:18+09:00
Subject: Re: can ik make this more beautifull?

That is apparently a matter of opinion.
I find the single line alternative clear, concise and quite beautiful.
It reads just like a sentence for me.

The 9-line alternative is annoyingly verbose and just burns vertical 
space.
That style has me paging up and down or reaching for the scroll bar more 
often.
Having to do that does not make the code easier to read in my opinion.

-- Mike Berrow

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Peter Hickman wrote:
> Jari Williamsson wrote:
>>>          if condition3
>> A case expression is probably the most clear alternative. The shortest 
>> is perhaps something like:
>>
>> x = condition1 ? 1 : condition2 ? 2 : 3
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Jari Williamsson
>>
>>
> Short it may be but this sort of code can hardly be called beautiful, I
> have had to maintain crap like this before and the few keystrokes the
> author saved was made up for 1000 times when someone updated it and
> things didn't 'quite' work how they thought. Ruby allows simplicity and
> clarity, this however is heading into obfuscation.
> 
> The better solution is to use the elsif keyword to flatten the 
> indentation:
> 
> if (temp == 'cat')
>   x = 1
> elsif(temp == 'dog')
>   x = 2
> elsif(temp == 'banana')
>   x = 3
> else
>   x = nil
> end

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