From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-02-03T11:12:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Indentation vs. "end"s

Hi,

In message "Re: Indentation vs. "end"s"
    on Thu, 2 Feb 2006 06:37:02 +0900, "Rubyist" <nuby.ruby.programmer@gmail.com> writes:

|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?

We are experimenting double semicolons as well as "end"s, so that you
can type

  class Foo
    def bar(a)
      p a
    ;;
  ;;

instead of

  class Foo
    def bar(a)
      p a
    end
  end

Or you can even type

  class Foo
    def bar(a)
      p a;;;;

But I'm still not sure if it's good enough to be remained in 2.0.
No, don't worry, we are NOT going to remove "end"s from the language;
double semicolons are just alternative.

							matz.