bug#16182: Acknowledgement (24.3.50; ruby-mode: Indentation style of multiline literals with hanging open paren inside other parens)

[Steve Purcell]

On 21 Dec 2013, at 15:31, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:

> This example is indented just like Robocop master likes with (AlignWith: 
> variable):
> 
> b = a = if 3 == 4
>      1
>    else
>      2
>    end
> 
> puts a
> puts b
> 
> 
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I suspect that users who like less 
> indentation would prefer to have the `if' body and closer to be aligned to 
> the beginning of the statement, rather than to `a’.


I wouldn’t personally consider as reasonable *any* scheme which placed related 
“if”, “else” and “end” keywords at differing levels of indentation.

To get less indentation in the above case, one should place the “if” on a new 
line IMO.

Just my 2c. :-)