From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-11-06T00:10:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Some comments on new 1.9 features

On 11/4/05, Nikolai Weibull
<mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > It sounds too much like Python. Python's syntax is one of the reasons
> > I don't use Python.
> Well, the idea was to give everyone the choice of what they wanted to
> use, delimited blocks, or indentation blocks.

IMO, this is not a good idea. Choose one and stick with it. Also IMO,
Ruby came down on the right side of the debate -- indentation blocks
are excessively fragile.

-austin
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