From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2007-05-19T06:17:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not adopt "Python Style" indentation for Ruby?

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On 5/18/07, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Why not adopt "Python Style" indentation for Ruby?"
>     on Sat, 19 May 2007 03:15:17 +0900, "S.Volkov" <svolkov@comcast.net>
> writes:
>
> |imho: we need special terminator anyway, now it is 'end', could be
> another;
> |suggestion: introduce ';;' terminator for 'implicit blocks (not started
> with
> |class/module/def/do/begin), ie:
>
> For your information, 1.9 once had exact same syntax you've proposed
> for a short while.  I have a time machine.  The idea was abandoned
> since it caused serious unreadability.
>
>                                                         matz.


Very glad to hear it. We don't want Ruby turning into Ocaml, rife with
unreadable symbols and impossible to follow constructions.

Ruby's do/end is just fine. So we can't do two-liner if statements. I've
never, ever liked that syntax as it makes code at first glance confusing.
e.g.:

int i = 0, j = 0, x = 0;
for(i = 0; i < 10 ; i++)
for(j = 0; j < 30; j++);
for(x = 0; x < 100; x++)
printf(i + j + x);

I'm a big fan of the more verbose keywords of Ruby because for one there are
very few of them and two it makes the language easy to read.

Jason

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