From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-06-16T09:15:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16515] Re: Playing with Ruby Syntax (was: Initial  thoughts about Ruby From a Smalltalk Programmer)

"Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@hurstlinks.com> writes:

> >    my_if  a = b  then: { puts "one"} else: { puts "two" }
> > 
> 
> My thoughts:
> 1) why not also have block->proc conversion without keywords args?

It just seems slightly tidier with them.

> 2) wait, how does ruby know that the block after "then:" isn't a hash?

Aarrggh. We need more punctuation characters. Maybe we could usurp <>
as a proc, rather than as the delimiters for local block args.

Sigh


Dave