From: Wayne Blair <wayne.blair@...>
Date: 2001-06-16T10:42:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16525] Re: Smalltalk vs. Ruby


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From: "Avi Bryant" <avi@beta4.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 9:06 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:16524] Re: Smalltalk vs. Ruby


> On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Wayne Blair wrote:
>
> > Sure, but what we're saying is that this is easier to read:
> >
> > connect(someLocation)
> > { |connection|
> > ...
> > }
>
> Well, sure, but I thought
>
> connect(someLocation) do
> |connection|
> ...
> end
>
> was actually pretty close to
>
> connect: someLocation do:
> [ :connection |
> ...]
>
> if we're going for pseudo-smalltalk.
>

Humourously enough, I wasn't even talking pseudo-smalltalk.  I just like it
when block delimiters are nice and lined up on the left, and indented,
because it lets me take in a lot more code in a glance.