From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2009-02-18T02:31:35+09:00
Subject: Re: What are your favorite Ruby features?


On Feb 17, 2009, at 5:59 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Juan Zanos  
> <juan_zanos@talkhouse.com>wrote:
>
>
> IMHO, coding Ruby without parentheses is a particular kind of spice.
> Whether you should use a particular spice depends on what you are  
> cooking.
>
> On the other hand, I've always found leaving out parentheses in Ruby  
> code,
> "just because you can" to tend to look far stranger to my eye than  
> putting
> them in. In fact, sometimes when reading code without them I find  
> myself
> having to read very slowly in order to figure out just how Ruby is  
> parsing
> what I'm reading.


I like to switch on situation. Usually, my rule of thumb is:

Descriptive code without braces, algorithmic code with braces.

===
has_many :foobars
#vs.
has_many(:foobars)
===
(really, the braces bring no gain)

and

===
foo(bar(batz))
#vs.
foo bar(batz)
===
(the omission kills readability)

Btw., my favourite feature about Ruby is its ability to mix  
descriptive code and algorithmic code very well.

Regards,
Florian

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