From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-05-19T15:38:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not adopt "Python Style" indentation for Ruby?

On 5/18/07, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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:
That puzzles me, would you not forget the ":" then? Or do you have a
lot of Python experience. Not that I think bad of the ":" syntax, just
wondering.

Robert
>
>   5.times |n|:
>     n.times:
>       print n
>     puts
>
> But I don't think a line prefix is worth the trouble.
>
> T.
>
>
>


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