From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-08-11T01:00:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Yet Another useless Ruby 2 Idea

On Aug 6, 2005, at 10:42, Daniel Brockman wrote:
> 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!

Right, because you need to comment out both sides of the  
conditional.  That's not too difficult.  Compare it to python

def helloworld(debug):
     if (debug):
         print("starting engines\n")
         print("main screen turn on\n")
         print("You have no chance to survive make your time\n")
     print("Hello World!\n")

If I want that bit of text to appear every time I run the program, I  
not only have to comment out the "if (debug):" line, but also fix the  
indentation on all the lines in that conditional.

Ben