From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-05-19T07:41:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not adopt "Python Style" indentation for Ruby?



On May 18, 5:22 pm, Sven Suska <sven71...@suska.org> wrote:
> Eric Mahurin schrieb:
>
> > You might consider something like this as an alternative block syntax.
> > Maybe a ":" followed by a newline (and extra indentation) would start
> > this style.  I'm not sure of a clean way to handle arguments though.
>
> What about another syntax:
> Putting a special character at the beginning of every line that is
> governed by significant whitespace.
> Thes would cause no problems with normal Ruby syntax,
> but would provide a way to use significant indentation if one really
> wants to.
>
> If "~" were that special character, it would look like that:
> ~ 5.times do |n|
> ~   n.times do
> ~     print n
> ~   puts

I can't count how many times I've forgotten "do". Sometimes I have
wished a colon could "induce" the block:

  5.times |n|:
    n.times:
      print n
    puts

But I don't think a line prefix is worth the trouble.

T.