From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-06-04T14:25:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Can you do Lisp-like macros in Ruby?

On Jun 3, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Elliot Temple wrote:
> On Jun 3, 2006, at 8:19 AM, Mat Schaffer wrote:
>> I do agree that Lisp has some neat tricks, but it made my eyes  
>> hurt trying to figure out where all the parens in that code  
>> started and stopped....
> most of the parentheses can be ignored because the whitespace  
> contains the same information. like in ruby we use whitespace to  
> read nested do/end blocks.

Yeah, that probably came off stronger than I intended.  I'm sure like  
anything else, you get used to it after awhile.  I'm just not used to  
it in the least.
-Mat