On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 9:25 AM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

> {snipping lots}
> > On 02-06-2016, at 8:19 AM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>   braceAtTheEndOfLine ifTrue: [
> >>        (this isA: #Monstrosity) because:
> >>               blocks are objects not syntax].
> >
> > This is absolutely personal preference, but I prefer to have blocks have
> > similar syntax as methods, because that makes it easier to read code.
> > This means that the first line, which contains the opening bracket and
> the argument names, is far less important than what the block does, so it's
> perfectly okay to leave it on the previous line.
>
> So I think you mean
>         coll do: [:each|
>                 statement.
>                 argument.
>                 resolution].
> … which is pretty much how I prefer things.
>

No.  That puts the start of the block to the right of the first line of the
block.  That's not rectangular at all.  i.e. "statement" is to the left of
"[:each|".  It should be

        coll do:
               [:each|
                statement.
                argument.
                resolution].

Here, all the text of the block is included in the recangle formed by
"[:each|" and "resolution]".


> We should be very careful about discussing this. I don’t think anything
> causes more annoyance, hard feeling, lost friendships, broken communities,
> lost projects and global war than syntactic debates.
>

Understood.  Bt Kent gives v good rationale for all elements of his style
guide, and one way of avoiding conflicts over formatting is to have and
observe as much as possible, and support with tools, a house style.


> tim
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