From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-08-05T21:37:08+09:00
Subject: Re: new block notation (was: Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661)

On Aug 4, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Florian Gro� wrote:
> 10.upto(20, { |i| puts i })
>
> is harder to type and read than
>
> 10.upto(20) { |i| puts i }
>
> One can now argue that it does not matter for cases where there  
> only is a block:
>
> 1.times { } is the same as 1.times({ }) anyway.

FWIW, this is what Lua allows - a special syntax for the special case  
where the sole argument to the function is a table (aka Hash) allows  
you to drop the surrounding parens.

(Not a suggestion that this is sufficient for blocks, just a random  
peek into another interpreted language's syntax.)