From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-08T07:33:47+09:00
Subject: Re: quality of error messages

On Thursday 07 October 2004 04:57 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.

Probably it would be "bestest" if Ruby had used { ... } and/or do ... end in 
all places.

  class Foo {

  }

  def bar(baz) {

  }
  
  if x == 32 do

  end

etc.

I bet parsing would be tad faster too.

T.