From: Jon Forums Date: 2011-07-21T02:46:34+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:38272] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #5054] Compress a sequence of ends Issue #5054 has been updated by Jon Forums. Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > I'm still _very_ much for the current style and haven't wrapped my mind around the new visual look. > > It all looks like some wacky mashup of Ruby and Python. That said, here's another one. > > > > 5_end > > That makes me have to count the number of blocks it's closing to ensure it's five. Please have the computer count rather than me. :-) What, you can't bare the idea of a room full of hackers with their shoes off trying to debug their 13 levels of nesting? ---------------------------------------- Feature #5054: Compress a sequence of ends http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5054 Author: Yasushi ANDO Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: Yasushi ANDO Category: Joke Target version: 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 CRuby - http://www.atdot.net/sp/raw/kn9iol - http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ku-ma-me/20110718/p1 Thanks for your consideration. -- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org