From: Ayumu Aizawa <ayumu.aizawa@...>
Date: 2011-07-19T19:42:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:38187] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #5054] Compress a sequence of ends

Hi Guys

It seems so strange to me.
It is not visible at first sight how many "end" was included :(

2011/7/19 Shota Fukumori <sorah@tubusu.net>:
>
> Issue #5054 has been updated by Shota Fukumori.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I like your proposal. I'd like to merge this.
> But this is new syntax, so if we merge this proposal, I recommend to merge at 2.0.
>
> And I agree to indenting rule by Martin. This rule is more beautiful and human readable.
>
> P.S.: nobu said "there is editor problem" at rubykaigi. Anyone can write a patch for ruby.vim?
> ----------------------------------------
> Feature #5054: Compress a sequence of ends
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5054
>
> Author: ANDO Yasushi ANDO
> Status: Open
> Priority: Normal
> Assignee:
> Category:
> Target version:
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>
> Though as matz said at rubykaigi2011 ruby is a quite good language, many people hate a long sequence of `end' like this:
>
> module MyModule
> �class MyClass
> � �def my_method
> � � �10.times do
> � � � �if rand < 0.5
> � � � � �p :small
> � � � �end
> � � �end
> � �end
> �end
> end
>
> So, I'd like to propose introducing a special keyword, en(n+)d. Using this keyword, we can rewrite the above example like this:
>
> module MyModule
> �class MyClass
> � �def my_method
> � � �10.times do
> � � � �if rand < 0.5
> � � � � �p :small
> � � � �ennnnnd
>
> I know matz's already rejected a python-style block. He wrote:
>
>> it works badly with
>> � * tab/space mixture
>> � * templates, e.g. eRuby
>> � * expression with code chunk, e.g lambdas and blocks
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/108457
>
> These bad things won't occur by introducing en(n+)d.
>
> Some implementations already exists.
>
> JRuby
> - https://gist.github.com/1088363
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> CRuby
> - http://www.atdot.net/sp/raw/kn9iol
> - http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ku-ma-me/20110718/p1
>
> Thanks for your consideration.
>
>
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