From: Rimantas Liubertas Date: 2006-10-14T08:28:14+09:00 Subject: Re: What is the reason for this syntax? <...> > So shouldn't things that can > adversly affect the readability of the language itself be addressed > since it is well within human capacity to do so? I think it is well within human capacity to accept some rules of the language - or to choose another language if one does still does not like the rules. There were numerous explanations in this thread why Ruby behaves the way it does, and, frankly, I do like it this way. Regards, Rimantas -- http://rimantas.com/