From: Jules Tamagnan <jtamagnan@gmail.com>

> an_overly_long_variable_name = some_object.some_method(some_argument_to_some_method)
>
> could be split like this:
>
> an_overly_long_variable_name = (
>     some_object.some_method(some_argument_to_some_method))
>
> or if someone wanted to use a backslash like this:
>
> an_overly_long_variable_name = \
>     some_object.some_method(some_argument_to_some_method)
>
> instead of like:
>
> an_overly_long_variable_name = \
>                                some_object.some_method(some_argument_to_some_method)
> ----------

Ah, I'd been looking at stuff from the test suite which looked like:

    an_overly_long_variable_name = something \
                                   another.thing(etc)

which seems a bit neater than

    an_overly_long_variable_name = something \
        another.thing(etc)

but I find your example convincing.  And we still have parens if the
first kind of indentation is preferred:

    an_overly_long_variable_name = (something 
                                    another.thing(etc))

I actually have the fix for the tests already written anyway.  I'll wait
a week or so before pushing, in case anyone else has some comments on
this.