From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-09-11T08:12:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics


----- Original Message -----
From: "William Djaja Tjokroaminata" <billtj@z.glue.umd.edu>

> Just FYI, the Python way to do the short condition like below is
>
>     if !condition: statement

I'm not sure why I bother, but "statement unless condition" is more readable
and writable to a significant number of people.  Why?  It maps better to
natural language.

> And we can see how Python is really consistent in terms of code
> layout that the "if" is always in front; there are not so many ways on
> how to layout a code in Python.

This has been refuted before.

Gavin