From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-05-19T03:50:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not adopt "Python Style" indentation for Ruby?

On 5/18/07, gga <GGarramuno@aol.com> wrote:
> No, it is just the other way around.  Languages that use curly braces
> for indentation like C, Perl, etc. are EASY to work with once code is
> not properly factored and it extends outside a single page.  Ruby is
> easy only when you use {, not so much when you use do/end,
> unfortunately, as most editors know nothing about it.  Some good
> editors (emacs, for example), can tell you the context you are in the
> modeline with curly braces, but not so with other block indentation
> types.  And most editors can easily find matching braces.  No editor I
> am aware knows how to match indentation yet or do/end contexts (not
> that it could not be coded, thou).

Vim does this just fine.

-austin
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