[ruby-core:58125] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #9070] Introduce `---` as synonym of `end` keyword

On Nov 1, 2013, at 10:44 AM, alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov) wrote:

> This looks to me like the best approximation to the indentation based =
syntax without being indentation based.

One easy way to get that appearance right now would be to append ";end" =
to the end of the preceding line:

 class Person
   attr_reader :name, :age
   def initialize(name, age)
     @name, @age =3D name, age ;end

   def <=3D>(person) # the comparison operator for sorting
     age <=3D> person.age; end

   def to_s
     "#{name} (#{age})" ;end ;end

Of course, when adding a new method at the end of class Person you need =
to make sure to put it in between the two ";end" statements.

Disclaimer: I am not advocating this solution; I am just pointing out =
that it could be done this way.  I personally like having outdented =
"end" statements on separate lines, but this is obviously a subjective =
preference.  Giving lexical significant to the amount of whitespace at =
the beginning of line really bothers me and is one of the reasons I =
prefer Ruby to Python! :-)

Dave