From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-05-02T08:53:40+09:00
Subject: Re: {} VS do/end styles

Jim Weirich wrote:
> Mark Hubbart wrote:
> 
>> While there is some amount of preference involved, there is a general 
>> rule that most Ruby programmers (and matz, I believe) agree on: 
>> brackets for one-line blocks, do...end for longer blocks. ie:
> 
> 
> I've heard that general advice, and even followed it for a while.  I 
> finally gave up on it because many one liners grow into multiline 
> blocks, and it was just annoying to switch from {} to do/end when that 
> happened.  Plus the style choice wasn't conveying any additional 
> information, so I dropped it and went back to a "whatever looks good" 
> style.
> 
> Just recently I've been trying out the following guidelines:
> 
> o If the block returns a value, use {}
> o if the block doesn't return a value, use do/end


{ ... } means less typing, plus brace matching in Vim.

Yeah, I know that the ruby plugin for Vim will auto-type  do/end for me, 
but I also find the braces visually cleaner.

James