From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-04-27T21:46:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Block Style

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> writes:
>

>> http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/2007/10/02/ruby-blocks-do-or-brace
>
> FYI - looks like you have an extra trailing paren here in the last
> code example:
>
>  description 'pickup up the leaves'
>  task(:rake => pre_raking_tasks) {#code to rake the leaves})

Yeah that was a cut and past typo in the sequence of examples.

>
> BTW - this is one of the reasons I tend to use parens on function
> invocations consistently.

I also tend to use more parentheses than most rubyists, but I don't
normally use them in the face of a DSL method, so I use

attr_reader :foo
alias_method :meth1, :meth2
has_many :widgets, :through => :gadet_widget_usage
task :doit => :didit

rather than

attr_reader(:foo)
alias_method(:meth1, :meth2)
has_many(:widgets, :through => :gadet_widget_usage)
task(:doit => :didit)

As I said eariler, I eschew dogmatism. I agree with Ralph Waldo
Emerson's "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

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