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		gord on March 21, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rails won Well, I haven't seen a lot of ruby code that uses } instead of end, have you? So using }, although legal, might not be within standard ruby practice. The fact that it _allows_ 'end' would be enough to turn me off :] I guess 'end' wasn't the only reason - while I don't actively dislike Ruby, I just prefer scheme or the lisp family. Part of that is the logical consistency of the lisp languages, part of it is purely personal taste.

petercooper on March 21, 2009 [–]

Standard Ruby style is to use { } when the code block is inline or a single liner, and do/end on multi-line blocks. This is only common style though.

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