From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-11-07T18:41:35+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 21637-21729


In message "Re: ruby-dev summary 21637-21729"
    on 03/11/07, Laurent Sansonetti <laurent@datarescue.be> writes:

|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?

There's always trade-off.  Newline sensitive syntax do not allow
line concatenation by operator at the beginning of a line, e.g. how
can we distinguish

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

which is a single assignment statement, from

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

an assignment followed by two unary plus expression?

							matz.