From: Kevin Smith <sent@...>
Date: 2001-03-11T02:29:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12385] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables

matz@zetabits.com wrote:
>|>  loop {<a, b, c|d, e, f>
>|>    ...
>|>  }
>|
>|Hmmmm. At a glance, that looks pretty confusing. 
>|I'm so used to | x | that it's jarring having < a 
>|| b > instead. Slight changes to the symbols used 
>|might make it better. 
>
>So, which symbols are better for them?

I was afraid you would ask. I'm hoping to avoid 
re-using the <> operators, if possible. And I 
would like to keep | | as surrounding operators, 
rather than now having just one in the middle. 
Perhaps one of the following would work. I think 
I like any of them better than the original 
proposal, but I don't know which ones would fit 
the existing parser better, or be most Ruby-ish.

loop { | a,b,c || d,e,f |

loop { | a,b,c | local :d, :e, :f

loop { | a,b,c, ::d, ::e, ::f |

loop { | a,b,c | ::d, ::e, ::f

loop { | a,b,c | (d,e,f)

loop { | a,b,c (d,e,f) |

loop { | a,b,c | def_locals(d,e,f)

loop { | a,b,c, <d>,<e>,<f> |

loop { | a,b,c | <d,e,f>


Kevin