From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-11-04T23:09:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Some comments on new 1.9 features

Hi --

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Dave Burt wrote:

> Hi.
>
> David A. Black wrote:
>> Hi --
>>
>> On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, nobuyoshi nakada wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> At Fri, 4 Nov 2005 12:27:09 +0900,
>>> Trans wrote in [ruby-talk:164082]:
>>>> What's the rationle here? I'd rather have a punctutation mark for 'do'
>>>> (yes, ':' again ;-p)
>>>
>>> Why do you all want colon to overwork so much? ;)
>>
>> Not all of us -- I'm still in the "conservative about new punctuation"
>> camp :-)
>
> Aren't you the "conservative about most things" camp, David?

In Ruby development, or in life? :-)

> Do we all not like ";;"?

As a pointless no-op, it's great :-)  Is it really being considered as
a synonym for 'end'?  I don't understand that at all.


David

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