From: Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@...>
Date: 2006-02-03T23:14:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Indentation vs. "end"s

On 2/3/06, Thomas Kirchner <lists@halffull.org> wrote:
> * On Feb  3 13:07, MenTaLguY (ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org) wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I was going to write my own post, but it seems MenTaLguY did it for me!
>
> I am in total agreement; semicolons are an ugly way to end sections.
> Curly braces I have a much easier time with.

I'm not a fan of the curly braces, but if we do end up using them, I
hope we don't allow this.

def some_method(args)
  # some code
}

If we're going to use them, I think they need to be matched, so a {
should appear at the end of the method argument list.

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R. Mark Volkmann
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