From: Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene Date: 2011-07-21T15:20:49+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:38316] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #5054] Compress a sequence of ends Issue #5054 has been updated by Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene. > The best strategy that I have come up with is to arbitrarily insert/remove additional ends somewhere, and see what happens, and zoom in on the problem location with something close to binary search. This is something I've definitely encountered, along with all of my students. I'm not so sure it's a Ruby specific thing though. Perhaps a solution in a different language has already been designed. > end!, end*, endall. Counting is not very serious. I would definitely use endall or end!, or even both. An example: method do method2 do method3 do puts "red!" endall ---------------------------------------- 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