From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2010-01-10T11:34:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby editing style rules and recommendation?

Josh Cheek wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Nathan Oyama <nate@culip.net> wrote:
> 
>> Which one is recommended in terms of the editing style?
>>
> 
> I usually use braces for single line, and do/end for multi-line.

That's what 99% of Ruby programmers do. :)

> 
> I've also started alternating them to make it clearer where blocks start 
> and
> end.
> 
> def whatever
>   each { |obj|
>     if obj < MID
>       call_method
>     else
>       self.var = yield obj
>       call_other_method
>     end
>   }
> end

Yuck!  That looks inconsistent to me.  It would also be an editing 
nightmare if you extract or introduce one level of nesting.

> 
> def whatever
>   each do |obj|
>     if obj < MID
>       call_method
>     else
>       self.var = yield obj
>       call_other_method
>     end
>   end
> end
> 
> I think the top one is much easier to read, so I sometimes alternate 
> now.

Best,
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