From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-02-02T07:23:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Indentation vs. "end"s

On 01/02/06, Rubyist <nuby.ruby.programmer@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> What would be even better would be to allow optional labels after end
> >> statements, such as "end class", "end def", so the parser can catch
> >> more errors.
> That sound like a good idea. But what about "if", "when", "for",
> "until" etc?
> Hmm...
> "endif", "end when", "end for", "end until", "end class", "enddef",...
> Umh! A never "ended" nightmare.

I'm not particularly fond of IF ... ENDIF constructs, but one can simulate this:

  def foo
    ...
  end # def foo

I don't do it, though. Vim does a damn fine job of folding things for me.

-austin
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