From: John Feminella <johnf@...>
Date: 2011-05-13T06:11:45+09:00
Subject: Re: indenting "end"

I've never seen this even once except when it was a mistake, but maybe
it's just me. Are you seeing this usage in prominent Ruby
frameworks/libraries (e.g. Rails, Sinatra, etc.) or Ruby code?
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On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 16:51, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
> I've been seeing a lot of this lately:
>
>    def foo(bar)
>      puts bar
>      end
>
> For me, at least, this tends to make code kind of difficult to read.
> This is what I've always seen in Ruby code before recent trends:
>
>    def foo(bar)
>      puts bar
>    end
>
> Is this some kind of bleed-over from Python's lack of ending delimiters
> for indented code?  Does it follow from Whitesmiths style indentation?
> Is it perhaps a case of people being unaware that good editors can
> properly handle auto-indentation for Ruby?  Is it actually an emerging
> preference in Ruby culture?  I'm curious about why I see this more and
> more often lately (though still notably less often, especially among
> experienced coders, than the style with "end" keywords at the same
> indentation level as whatever started the indented block of code -- at
> the same indentation level as the "def" keyword, in this case).
>
> --
> Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
>