From: "Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@...>
Date: 2001-06-16T09:27:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16518] Re: Playing with Ruby Syntax (was: Initial   thoughts about Ruby From a Smalltalk Programmer)


Dave Thomas wrote:
> ...
> > 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.
> 

hmm.  

Well, that may pose an interesting parsing problem, but if not,
maybe it can also serve as a form of the proc/block that forces parameters 
to be block-local? 

So that:

proc<|a,b| ...> 

is equivalent to the proposed:

proc{<a,b> .... } 

This would allow us to keep the || notation.


Guy N. Hurst

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