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What's with the use of curly brackets for multi-line blocks?

• joshbuddy 15y ago
  Um, where did you see those? I think I used curly braces for a lot of the Renee { .. } examples, and use the do..end once I'm inside there. That's just my style, but, you can use which ever one you prefer (and of course, if the precedence is correct.)
• rue 15y ago
  Most “rules” about {…} vs. do…end are nonsense. I tend to use {…} unless I can't be bothered to put parens around the arguments.
  • ryeguy 15y ago
    They're nonsense in that they are without ryhme or reason, but you should be following the community standard (curlies for one liners, do/end for everything else). I'd honestly pass on an open source project not following the generally agreed upon ruby standard.
    • seanp2k2 15y ago
      >"They're nonsense in that they are without ryhme or reason, but you should be following the community standard (curlies for one liners, do/end for everything else)." That's my reasoning too. At first, I thought it was more readable (read: familiar) to use curly braces, but now I stick with do...end for blocks >1 line. Sometimes it's helpful for breaking up complex nested map() blocks as well.
    • rue 15y ago
      …Except that that isn't “the community standard”. It's one of the more popular varieties, of about equal support with {…} for when you use the return value.