On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Philip Rhoades <[email protected]> wrote: > People, > > I have an existing script that looks like: > > lots of code > . > . > . > if .. > some lines of code > if .. > some lines of code > if .. > some lines of code > if .. > some lines of code > if .. > some lines of code > etc > > This makes it difficult to see the overall logic
I can believe *that*. > so I want to change it to something like: > > lots of code > . > . > . > if .. > call something > if .. > call something > if .. > call something > if .. > call something > if .. > call something > etc That does not seem much better to me. Why do you need such a structure of code? Can you be more specific about what you are doing there? Maybe a completely different structure of the code is even better. > but if I use methods I will have to pass lots of variables or use global > variables and then it gets clumsy changing everything - is there some way of > simply calling a block of code and then returning to the same position in > the nested "ifs"? I don't think there is. Unless, maybe, if you declare all local variables at the beginning of the method, followed by a whole bunch of Procs which you call where "something" is written. I doubt though that this will be more readable. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ruby-talk-google group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ruby-talk-google?hl=en
