From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-10-30T21:30:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Style matter [Re: "multiple assignment in conditional"]

From: "Bulat Ziganshin" <bulatz@integ.ru>


> Hello Gavin,
>
> Wednesday, October 30, 2002, 9:48:48 AM, you wrote:
>
>
> GS>   action1(blah, blah, blah)
> GS>   LOG.info "done action 1"
> GS>   action2(blah, blah, blah)
> GS>   LOG.info "done action 1"
> GS>   action3(blah, blah, blah)
> GS>   LOG.info "done action 1"
>
> GS> is more readable to me as
>
> what about:
>
>    action1(blah, blah, blah)
>      LOG.info "done action 1"
>    action2(blah, blah, blah)
>      LOG.info "done action 1"
>    action3(blah, blah, blah)
>      LOG.info "done action 1"
>
>  Bulat                            mailto:bulatz@integ.ru


Great idea, BUT: any editor worth its salt will reindent that the first chance
it gets (i.e. align it all).  Actually, Vim, which is worth all the salt in
Australia, will re-indent

   x and
     y

to

   x and
   y

anyway, but I'm working on that.  Ruby is a difficult language to handle in
editors.  Even Perl is easier because of the mandatory semicola :-)

Your suggestion is what I have in my code currently.  I just have to keep my
hand away from the = key in normal mode :)

Gavin