From: Dirk Meijer <hawkman.gelooft@...>
Date: 2006-02-02T07:21:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Indentation vs. "end"s

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i like the "end"s, it reminds me of the old days when i programmed my Texas
Instruments calculator and always forgot an "end" somewhere :P

2006/2/1, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com>:
>
> In article <nUfDf.49093$Kp.5722@southeast.rr.com>,
> Jeffrey Schwab  <jeff@schwabcenter.com> wrote:
> >Rubyist wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I *REALLY* love Ruby very much. But I always find those "end"s somewha=
t
> >> ugly ( thousands of excuses to Matz ). I sometimes feel myself wishing
> >> that Ruby use indentation (as Python does) instead of "end"s.
> >>
> >> Today, I have seen a post in:
> >>
> >> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=3D146091
> >>
> >>
> >> As far as I know, Bruce Eckel is a competent programmer and when I saw
> >> that he was agree with me, I surprised.
> >>
> >> What do you think about those "end"s? Do you *REALLY* like them?
> >> Will Ruby-2 offer an alternative? Well, maybe not "indentation" but
> >> will another solution be available?
> >
> >
> >I like having something to search for in my editor.  Explicit
> >block-ending tokens also help when I am skimming code to review its
> >structure.
>
> And having 'end' sure makes things like ERB easier (possible) to
> implement.
>
>
> Phil
>
>

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