From: Bil Kleb <W.L.Kleb@...>
Date: 2002-03-20T13:21:41+09:00
Subject: Re: style choice

Ron Jeffries wrote:
>  
>   def degree
>     return @degree if @degree > 0
>     @scopes.each { | field | @degree += field.length }
>     @degree
>   end
> 
>   def degree
>     @scopes.each { | field | @degree += field.length } if @degree == 0
>     @degree
>   end

These are not equivalent unless @degree is positive definite or
all the field.length's are zero when @degree is negative?

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Bil Kleb
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, Virginia, USA