From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-07-31T19:58:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby could be wildly more popular if it had ...


"Arthur" <arthur8@boardermail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote in message
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> > > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 22:30, Robert Klemme wrote:
> > >
> > >> My solution is to use {} for one line blocks and do..end for more
> > >> complicated things.
> > >
> > > I tried this style for a while.  But then every time I added lines
to a
> > > one-line block, I had to change {} to do/end.
> > >
> > > Today I normally used {} on all blocks, except in Rake files.
> >
> >
> > My take is: {} are for functional blocks; do..end for procedural
blocks.
> > That shows me which expressions are important for their results, and
which
> > are not.
> >
> > Gavin
>
>
> This sounds very interesting.  Can you expand upon this a little?
> What do you take as the difference between procedural blocks and
> funcitonal blocks?  Can you provide an example?

I guess he means

(0..10).each do |i|; puts i; end
(0..10).map {|i| i+i}

    robert