From: Avi Bryant <avi@...4.com>
Date: 2001-06-16T09:52:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16521] Re: Smalltalk vs. Ruby

On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Wayne Blair wrote:

>     Actually I might just take a moment to bring up one of my previous points again. Syntax!
>     Kent Beck showed me a very interesting phenominum in one of his books. It's called the rectangle.
> 
>     self connect: someLocation do:
>         [:connection |
>         ....
>         ...
>         ....]
> 
>     instead of the more C-like structure
> 
>     self connect: someLocation do: [
>         :connection |
>         ...
>         ...
>         ...]
> 
>     which leaves an onimous [ hanging out in the middle of no where. Ever since me and my collegues at work saw this [...] visually, we have adopted it.
>     It makes things easier on the eyes.  I really wish Ruby would let
>     me start my blocks on the next line.

Well, how about 

connect(someLocation) do
	|connection|
	...
	...
	end

?