From: "Vít Ondruch" <v.ondruch@...>
Date: 2011-01-27T16:16:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34889] Re: make ruby support line continuations ?

Dne 27.1.2011 7:15, Marc Chantreux napsal(a):
> hello,
>
>> $ ruby -v; ruby fred; cat fred
>> ruby 1.9.2p94 (2010-12-08 revision 30140) [x86_64-darwin10.5.0]
>> options = { # defaults
>>      source_dir:   '/usr/share/vim/addons' \
>>     ,system_dir:  '/var/lib/vim/addons'   \
>> }
> I just compiled and tried: it works and that's good. But actually i
> still wonder why those \ are mandatory and think my initial question is
> still relevant. don't you think having punctuation as start of line is
> a good way to avoid the \ noise ?
>
> regards
> marc
>

Ruby code tends to be readable as plain English.

You never write punctuation on the beginning of line, so does Ruby.

Vit