From: "Stephan Kämper" <Stephan.Kaemper@...>
Date: 2004-05-02T19:58:59+09:00
Subject: Re: {} VS do/end styles

Hi David, Robert & all...

David Alan Black wrote:
> Jean-Hugues ROBERT <jean_hugues_robert@yahoo.com> writes:
>>At 15:12 02/05/2004 +0900, you wrote:
>>
>>>>> * do/end is *easier* to type than {} in terms of wear and tear on
>>>>>   my poor fingers

8< snip ...

>>>Whether do/end is easier to type than {} is rather subjective... 

....and certainly depends on the keyboard layout. On my (German) keyboard 
for example '{' is reached with [AltGr]-7 and I get '}' with [AltGr]-0 
(which, IMO, isn't too comfortable).

Nevertheless I prefer using the {} pair. Perhaps because I used C++ and 
the like before I switched to Ruby. But then, I used Pascal too (but 
loooong ago).

8< snip ...

>>The sad thing is that this style issue really matters a lot for people.
>>As a result rejecting either option is religious and accepting both is
>>agnostic. Once again religion leads to war. Really sad.

??? I don't think we're at war.
> 
> Heavens.  I think we were just chatting about it.  Here on
> ruby-talk/clr we still do that sometimes :-)

Yes. And that's great.

It's a matter of personal style, preferences, hisotry, momentum (in a 
way), instinct and may be keyborad layout and (typing) lazyness.

I wouldn't accept neither of these as a reason for war, heatet debates 
or anything like that.

I like programming, I like Ruby - I combine these and be happy.
(And I somewhat like the idea of taoism, which you might have noticed...)

Happy rubying

Stephan