From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-04-28T16:13:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Block Style

2009/4/28 James Gray <james@grayproductions.net>:
> On Apr 27, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Robert Klemme wrote:
>
>> On 27.04.2009 19:11, Robert Dober wrote:
>>>
>>> (I guess that it is {} for one liners and do end otherwise than)
>>
>> One liner and multi liner is actually exclusive, which cannot be said of
>> return value and side effects.  Maybe my sticking to the syntactical
>> convention is the reason why I never bother to think about which rules to
>> use.  James, maybe that can ease your "pain" as well?  :-)
>
> It's definitely easier, but it can lead to less pretty code too, like:
>
>  whatevery.map do |e|
>    # multiple lines of calculation here...
>  end.find { ... }
>
> That's one reason why I was looking into the other option.

Well, I personally do not find that "less pretty" - but this lies in
the eye of the beholder. :-)

If it comes to prettiness of code, for me these items are more important:

* proper indentation,
* avoidance of deep nesting of control structures,
* wise use of empty lines to visually separate logical bits of code.

But I'm digressing...

Kind regards

robert

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