From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2007-05-18T18:09:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not adopt "Python Style" indentation for Ruby?


On May 18, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:

> On 18/05/07, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In message "Re: Why not adopt "Python Style" indentation for Ruby?"
>>     on Fri, 18 May 2007 16:25:03 +0900, Chris Dew  
>> <cmsdew@googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>> |What are the reasons why this isn't used/implemented/liked?
>>
>> Python style block by indentation is an interesting idea, but it  
>> works
>> badly with
>>
>>   * tab/space mixture
>>   * templates, e.g. eRuby
>>   * expression with code chunk, e.g lambdas and blocks
> * clipboards, email, pastebins, and other places where the code is not
> preserved literally

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