From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-05-19T22:16:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Curly brackets (was: Rescue clauses on do/end blocks?)

On 5/19/06, Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, if this proposal is blocked by the lack of an elegant way to add
> clauses to curly bracket blocks, let's be proactive (hehe) and see if we
> can't come up with one.

I don't think that it's elegant or inelegant. It's just something that
looks odd. I personally want it.

> Off the top of my head, I thought of this:
>
>    foo {
>      bar
>    } rescue {
>      baz
>    } ensure {
>      bur
>    }
>
> which is a bit like in PHP, if I remember correctly.
>
>   a)  Would this be implementable?
>   b)  Would this be a tolerable syntax for y'all?

It might be implementable, but I find it intolerable.

-austin
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