From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2006-02-03T13:07:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Indentation vs. "end"s

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 12:46 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> > It sounds to me like it'll make reading ruby libraries / code a bit
> > more difficult since both can exist.  Is it worth that price?  Am I
> > missing something?
> 
> No. The purpose of this experiment is hearing other opinions.  So
> yours is quite worthwhile.

For what it's worth, I also strongly dislike it.  It was one of my least
favorite features of OCaml's syntax.

But here, the biggest problem is that (relative to other block endings
in pretty much any language I can think of), it's much harder to
visually count ;;s if they are squashed together as in your example.

I think this is largely because there aren't any visual cues to the
boundary between tokens.  The gap between two ;s within the same ;; and
the gap between two ;s in adjacent ;; aren't visually distinguishable.

-mental