From: "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...>
Date: 2005-03-31T20:53:05+09:00
Subject: Re: New block syntax

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On Wednesday 30 March 2005 20:55, David A. Black wrote:
> I prefer that the constructor (and the person reading the code from
> left to right) know what it's doing as soon as its leftmost token
> appears.

If I may be allowed a brief ad hominem argument, by this logic, Perl has a=
=20
better syntax than Ruby, because the human can see by the first token of an=
y=20
variable what type of variable it is.

=2D-=20
=2D-- SER

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents,=20
more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.  On some=20
great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach=20
their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned=20
by a downright moron."        -  H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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