From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-07-09T21:02:32+09:00
Subject: Re: I love Ruby

il Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:51:27 +0100, Graham Nicholls
<graham@rockcons.co.uk> ha scritto::


>I didn't even know there was a {} !
>Documentation (up to date) would seem to be a minor problem with ruby - am I
>being reasonable ? (To be fair, I've yet to read my 2 books from cover to
>cover, so I've probably missed it.)  For instance, I believe theres no 1.8
>documentation.  I'm still in love, though ;-)


you're reasonable but not in this thing. 
blocks in ruby are in the form:

amethod do |vars|
 body
end

or 

amethod { |vars|
 body
}

this is the only place where {} are used as syntax delimiters, and the
common idiom is to use do..end for multiline stuff, and {..} for
one-line blocks. 

You can't use them in place of begin..end, like:

begin 
 print 10 
end while true

{
 print 10 
} while true