From: "Grzegorz Chrupała" <grzegorz@...>
Date: 2004-02-15T01:39:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple litle style question

Kirk Haines wrote:

> This is just a simple little stylistic query that I became curious about
> after one of Ara Howard's questions the other day.
> 
> In general, do people prefer:
> 
> def simpleExample(t)
>   x = block_meth do
>     r = nil
>     if t == 'forty-two'
>       r = 42
>     else
>       r = 0
>     end
>     r
>   end
> 
>   x
> end
> 
> 
> or:
> 
> def simpleExample(t)
>   x = block_meth do
>     if t == 'forty-two'
>       r = 42
>     else
>       r = 0
>     end
>   end
> end
> 

I would do the following, which is more in the spirit of an expression-based
language:

def simpleExample(t)
  block_meth do
    if t == 'forty-two' then 42 else 0 end
  end
end

Personally, I wouldn't assign to variables that I'm not going to use. 

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