From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-11-06T03:20:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Some comments on new 1.9 features

Austin Ziegler wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for repeating what I said in the rest of my response, which you
have elided here.

        nikolai

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