From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-08-11T10:53:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Style question

Hi --

On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Dossy wrote:

> Let me ask a related question:  is there a accepted standard
> of where the |...| go?
>
> This is what I have been doing:
>
> One-liners look like:
>
>     [1, 2, 3].each { |x| p x }
>
> Multi-liners can look like:
>
>     [1, 2, 3].each { |x|
>         p x
>         p x + 1
>     }
>
> or
>
>     [1, 2, 3].each {
>         |x|
>         p x
>         p x + 1
>     }
>
> or
>
>     [1, 2, 3].each do
>         |x|
>         p x
>         p x + 1
>     end
>
> I don't often use "do |x|\n" ... not sure why.

That's the one I like for multi-line ones :-)  I personally don't like
the |x| on a separate line -- it always jolts visually, sort of the
visual equivalent of how it sounds when people read poetry and pause
at the end of each line whether it needs it or not.

I really like the majority of guidelines in:
http://www.jin.gr.jp/~nahi/RWiki/?cmd=view;name=RubyCodingConvention


David

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