From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2008-05-03T04:40:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9 wishlist

On Fri, 02 May 2008 12:46:25 -0500, coderrr wrote:

> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
> 
>> This is not possible without turning Ruby into either Python
>> (semantically significant whitespace) or Perl (required semicolons).
>>
>>
> Are you sure?  While loops already require "semantically significant
> whitespace" or a semicolon:
> 
> while true p :hi end
> # doesn't work
> while true; p :hi end
> # or
> while true
>   p :hi end
> 
> Isn't that kinda the same thing?

You've got an end on the end of that while loop that you didn't have for 
the if statement.

You could do
  if true
     p :true end
and that's already in the language


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