From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2008-05-03T02:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9 wishlist

On Fri, 02 May 2008 11:37:33 -0500, coderrr wrote:

> Hey I just put together a list of stuff I totally wish Ruby had and I
> think would make a lot of people's lives better.
> 
> In the order of importance:
> 
> 1) rescue/ensure available in all blocks arr.each do |e|
>   e.do_something
> rescue MyException
>   p :doh!
> ensure
>   p :every_time!
> end

I'd like this too.

> 2) two line if/while statements (like c): if true
>   p :true
> p :im_outside_of_if

This is not possible without turning Ruby into either Python 
(semantically significant whitespace) or Perl (required semicolons).

-- 
Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/