From: Doug H <doug00@...>
Date: 2005-12-19T04:27:46+09:00
Subject: Re: End matching

Has anyone ever written a proposal for optional labels after an "end".
 I've written a parser for another language that allows that.  So for
example you can type "end class" at the end of a class.  If you forget
to type an "end def" inside the class it will tell you the error you
made more clearly instead of matching "end class".  And you can still
just type "end" alone to match anything.

Oh, and just to mention this for the heck of it (not that it should be
seriously considered for ruby), you can actually parse the same code
with no "end" at all if the lines in a block are all indented the same.
 You don't need the colon like in python.  Just noting that after
seeing a failed ruby proposal that seemed to imply the colon was
required: http://www.rcrchive.net/rcr/show/299