From: Daniel Brockman <daniel@...>
Date: 2005-08-06T23:42:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Yet Another useless Ruby 2 Idea

gabriele renzi <surrender_it@remove-yahoo.it> writes:

> well, if I write
>
> def foozer(x):
>   if x >10:
>    print x
>   do other stuff
>
> and I do comment out the "if" line, there is a syntax error

Uh, this is much less of a problem with indentation-based
syntax than with delimiter-based such.

   def foozer(x)
     if x > 10
       print x
     end
     do other stuff
   end

Comment out the `if' line in the above code and you still
get a syntax error, but on a different line!

In general, with indentation-based syntax, what you see is
what you get, while with delimiter-based syntax, what you
see might or might not be what you get.

-- 
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>