From: Johannes Ahl-mann <softpro@...>
Date: 2005-02-13T23:14:57+09:00
Subject: mandatory braces

hi,

i've been playing around with ruby a bit and have a proposal to make.
i am sure that ruby won't adopt it right away and maybe it goes too much
against the ruby way. also, if this has been discussed earlier here, i
apologize for not researching ;-))

if ruby made braces (the round ones ;-) mandatory this would produce
some very nice effects and break nothing except for backward compatibility
(i think). regarding the backward compatibility one could even introduce
a new command-line switch to explicitely activate the "new" syntax.
a few things would become possible:

- differentiation between method bindings and method applications, i.e.
		"function1(function2)" instead of "function1(method(:function2))
- procedure objects could be treated similarly to functions:
		"myproc()" instead of "myproc.call()"
- ruby code would look more uniform, because at the moment the mixing
	of braces and no-braces drives me crazy *gg*

- on the negative side this would force braces for methods "yield",
	"print", "puts", "break", etc.

please tell me whether this is a bad idea,

Johannes