From: Justin Vincent <jv@...>
Date: 2006-06-21T23:07:59+09:00
Subject: Using parenthesis/barackets in ruby

Hi,

I'm new to Ruby, and have just started playing with it - nice.

I note that one big complaint from a-lot of folks is the lack of 
parenthesis/barackets.

Old habits die hard - for some of us :)

I was curious to see if ruby could be programmed with 
parenthesis/barackets even though it isn't supposed to.

To my suprise this worked...

#---------------------------------------------------
def print_dir ( path )
	Dir.foreach(path) do |file_name|
	(
		(
			if ( File.ftype( file_name ) == 'directory' )
			(
				print "[dir] #{file_name}\n"
			)
			else
			(
				print "      #{file_name}\n"
			)
			end
		)
	)
	end
end

print_dir ('.')
#---------------------------------------------------

Is there any reason why I should not be doing this?

What is it actually doing from a code/processing point of view?

If there are no issues, I would like to work with ruby this way because 
it helps me to visualize my code blocks, and I also find it useful 
because my text editor can match brackets and easily highlight code 
blocks.

Cheers,
JV

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