From: Stefan Lang <langstefan@...>
Date: 2005-08-01T04:26:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Yet Another useless Ruby 2 Idea

On Sunday 31 July 2005 21:21, gabriele renzi wrote:
> Hi gurus and nubys,
>
> Hearing about ocaml in the last weeks and having noticed matz'
> hack about using ;; as a block terminator (side by side with
> "end"), I realized that it could be nice if ruby could work the
> same ocaml does WRT to block terminator, I mean, make them optional
> when there is no ambiguity
[...]
> it could be cool if ruby could threat this cases as if there was an
> implicit block terminator, like ocaml does, so we could write
>
> class Foo
>   def bar(x)
>    puts x
>   def baz
>    puts 'baz'
>   Const=:someconstant
> end
>
> instead of
>
> class Foo
>   def bar(x)
>    puts x
>   end
>   def baz
>    puts 'baz'
>   end
>   Const=:someconst
> end

but it could also mean:

  class Foo
    def bar(x)
    end
    puts x
    def baz
    end
    puts 'baz'
    Const=:someconstant
  end

unless indentation is significant.

-- 
Stefan