From: Daniel Martin <martin@...>
Date: 2007-05-18T22:01:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not adopt "Python Style" indentation for Ruby?

Chris Dew <cmsdew@googlemail.com> writes:

> As far as I can see, the 'end' keyword is 'repeating yourself' when
> used with properly indented code.

Note that the Haskell folks have managed to evolve a language in which
python-like spacing can be used to mark the extent of discrete code
chunks, but so can traditional braces.

This is more then kind of thing I'd like to see in Ruby: having it
allow the compact python notation, but not require it.  (So that,
e.g., code generators would still be easy to write)

I think anyone serious about adding indentation-as-syntax to Ruby
should take a very close look at how Haskell manages to allow it
without requiring it.

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       puts "s=%q(#{s})",s.to_a.last       )
       puts "s=%q(#{s})",s.to_a.last