From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2005-08-05T09:42:38+09:00 Subject: Re: new block notation (was: Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661) Hi, In message "Re: new block notation (was: Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661)" on Fri, 5 Aug 2005 09:28:15 +0900, "David A. Black" writes: |But if you had a language (and I imagine there is one somewhere :-) |that used unique strings of punctuation for all its keywords, it would |look pretty bad. Obviously that's not an issue here, but it does |suggest that there can be such a thing as too much punctuation, even |if it's unambiguous. I agree. Too much symbols can cause memory problem. I had an implicit assumption that there shouldn't be too much symbols. matz.