From: Avatar - QUELLO VERO VERO - <avatar.79@...>
Date: 2008-02-01T00:34:56+09:00
Subject: Re: can ik make this more beautifull?

Mike Berrow ha scritto:
> 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
> 
> ---------------------------
> 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
> 

quoting...this stranger!! http://www.carnackyweb.com/?p=30