From: Charles Mills <cmills@...>
Date: 2004-10-08T06:43:35+09:00
Subject: Re: quality of error messages

On Oct 7, 2004, at 1:57 PM, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 07:39:04 +0900, Markus <markus@reality.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 15:19, Joachim Wuttke wrote:
>>> Thank you, Brian.
>>> This is quite a convincing example: I count not less than eight
>>> places where the "end" could be missing.
>>> Just for curiosity: why didn't Ruby borrow indentation semantics
>>> from Python ?
>>      Now there's an RCR I'd support.  Heck, I'd even volunteer to code
>> it!
>
> I think you'll find more people who don't want such an abomination.
>
> Python's indentation is the number one thing that prevents me from
> even considering using that language, because it forces me to work in
> a stupid manner (e.g., *its* manner), rather than adapting to my
> manner.

I feel the same way as Austin here.
Although there have been a few times where I have had to break a script 
up into smaller tmp files to figure out where the unclosed 
block/if/.../ started.  A separate utility to check the indentation 
would be useful (IMHO), but I don't think it really belongs in the main 
parser (or in Ruby at all).

-Charlie