From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-11-04T22:43:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Some comments on new 1.9 features

On 04/11/05, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just looking at http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?Changes+in+Ruby+1.9.
> Nicely done!
>
> Comment on a couple things
>
> 1) ;; instead of end
>
>   It is possible to use ;; instead of end.
>
>   (1..100).inject do |s,x|
>     s+x
>   ;;            # => 5050
>
>   class Foo
>     def foo; "foo" end
>   ;;
>   Foo.new.foo           # => "foo"
>
> What's the rationle here? I'd rather have a punctutation mark for 'do'
> (yes, ':' again ;-p)
>
>   (1..100).inject: |s,x|
>     s+x
>   end           # => 5050
>
> Of course could have both:
>
>   (1..100).inject: |s,x|
>     s+x
>   ;;            # => 5050
>
>

Please don't add ;; thats

1) Sheer uglyness
2) Parses as a noop operation.

Brian

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