From: David MacMahon <davidm@...>
Date: 2013-11-01T11:02:17-07:00
Subject: [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 = name, age ;end

   def <=>(person) # the comparison operator for sorting
     age <=> 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