[#4595] New block syntax — Daniel Amelang <daniel.amelang@...>

I'm really sorry if this isn't the place to talk about this. I've

25 messages 2005/03/21
[#4606] Re: New block syntax — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/03/21

Hi --

[#4629] Re: New block syntax — "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...> 2005/03/30

On Monday 21 March 2005 16:17, David A. Black wrote:

[#4648] about REXML::Encoding — speakillof <speakillof@...>

Hi.

15 messages 2005/03/31
[#4659] Re: about REXML::Encoding — "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...> 2005/04/04

On Thursday 31 March 2005 09:44, speakillof wrote:

Re: New block syntax

From: "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...>
Date: 2005-03-31 11:53:05 UTC
List: ruby-core #4639
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 
better syntax than Ruby, because the human can see by the first token of any 
variable what type of variable it is.

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