From: Laurent Sansonetti <laurent@...>
Date: 2003-11-07T18:04:47+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 21637-21729

Hi,

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: ruby-dev summary 21637-21729"
>     on 03/11/06, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:
> 
> |Is the syntax error because of the first line or because of the second?
> 
> Both.  Sequence of strings will no longer be valid.
> 
> |I ask because I do this a lot in my code:
> |
> |  s = "this is a string " \
> |      "that I have chosen to break " \
> |      "into multiple lines"
> 
> How about
> 
>   s = "this is a string " +
>       "that I have chosen to break " +
>       "into multiple lines"

I would prefer this:

s = "this is a string "
   + "that I have chosen to break "
   + "into multiple lines"

I think it's always better to avoid operators in the end of lines (code
is therefore more readeable).

Same think for this:

if (     expr1...
      and expr2...
      and expr3... )

    # do something
end

But AFAIK && unfortunately, Ruby does not handle this kind of syntax yet.

Matz, what do you think about this?

Thanks,

--
Laurent