From: Jason Foreman Date: 2005-08-05T22:13:14+09:00 Subject: Re: new block notation (was: Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661) I hadn't seen this particular variant posted in this thread yet. Apologies if it was and I missed it. I make no claims as to its ease of parsing or whatever, but it looks better than many of the other options to me. bar = { x, y=3, z=b|5 -> x + y * z } I believe this is similar to the approach that Groovy [1] uses for its blocks. Jason [1] http://groovy.codehaus.org