From: Gyoung-Yoon Noh <nohmad@...>
Date: 2005-11-05T23:52:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Some comments on new 1.9 features

On 11/5/05, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> Matz has repeatedly said Ruby will not have indent significant blocks.
> So can we pudder back to the original example?
>
>   10.times: |x|
>     x
>   ;;
>
> But now someone has said ';;' is a just a joke feature by matz? Is that
> true?
>
> T.
>
>
>

IIRC, ';;' was stolen from Qu language[1], which Matz also mentioned
with homonym 'qoo', the famous beverage/character.
I don't know why Matz mentioned those simultaneously, but
I can guess as it's just funny, aren't you? ;-)


[1]: http://centrin.net.id/~marc/example.html

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