From: "S.Volkov" <svolkov@...>
Date: 2007-05-18T23:15:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not adopt "Python Style" indentation for Ruby?

"Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote in message 
news:1179473895.694681.23173.nullmailer@x31.netlab.jp...
> 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
>
> So I'd rather be conservative here.
>
> matz.

imho: indentation should not define semantic;
suggestion: make 'end' optional if code block contains only one statement;

BRs
Sergey Volkov