From: Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Date: 2002-01-05T20:14:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30277] Re: Indentation (was: should I use ruby instead of perl)

On Sat, 05 Jan 2002 06:04:00 GMT, "Mark Hahn" <mchahn@facelink.com>
wrote:

>
>If the tail end (line going left) is all 'end' and '}' lines, then it could
>look like this:
>
>
>\
> \
>  \
>   \
>    \
>     \
>      \
>      |
>      |
>
>which is much shorter.  The reason is that if you hit the end of the file,
>or a def, module, or class keyword, all closing lines could be inserted by
>the compiler for you, instead of giving an error like it does now.
>
>I discovered this trick a long time when TI claculators would allow input
>such as:  (5*(3+2  (no closing parens were needed).
>
>I hate it when I see a third of my lines filled up with closing lines
>(noise), and I don't like the column restrictions that Python forces on you.
>This solution would have the clean look of python without the column line-up
>restriction.

Lisp systems sometimes have a kind of hyper right paren that does the
same thing.

I find that my more common error is to hae a missing close way up in
the middle. Closing everything at the end might make it compile, but
it wouldn't make it run, almost every time.

Ronald E Jeffries
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