From: Patrick Li <patrickli_2001@...>
Date: 2008-09-07T01:08:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Request for Block local methods, and Proc syntax

Thanks for the reply Matz,

I see what you mean by the inner def screwing up the object system. I 
don't foresee an easy way around that yet.

But I still think it's worth thinking about. In my opinion, DSL's is 
Ruby's greatest strength. It's the one feature where Ruby is light years 
ahead of other languages. And context-sensitive methods are vital to 
DSL's. I think putting in some thought towards this direction could 
really make Ruby stand out.

What other language let's you write code like:

html{
  image(@mySource)
}

or

initEngine{
  initSound
  initGraphics
  @window = initWindow
}

Anyway, thanks for designing such an elegant language Matz. It's really 
a joy to use. I'm just shamelessly asking for more.
  -Patrick
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