From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2002-08-01T07:47:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Style question

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 07:26:54AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> 
> Yes, that's how I write C/C++ and Java and Javascript, etc.
> 
> But Ruby is "semi-line-oriented."
> 
> Yet if you find some way of continuing the
> line, you could do this. Very ugly, though:
> 
>   [1, 2, 3].each   \
>   {|x|
>    # ...
>   }
> 
> 
It used to bother me to see code in C/C++ that was 
of the form

  for() {
    ...do something
  }

I was a big proponent of

  for()
  {
    ..do something
  }

But after using Ruby for a year, seeing that in C/C++
doesn't bother me as much. (In fact, the brace on the first
line is a coding standard for the bsd kernel, so I guess
it must not be all that bad. :)

Also, this style has never bothered me in Ruby. I'm not sure why.


-- 
Jim Freeze
If only I had something clever to say for my comment...
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