From: Mark Thomas Date: 2009-05-14T21:05:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Syntactic sugar idea This is a neat idea, but wouldn't it conflict with the "fluent interface" construct? Using Joel's DSL example: config "my window" do .width @x .height @y end if we changed it to config "my window" do .width calculate_width .height @y end Now how does the parser know what .height refers to: calculate_width, or the implicit block variable?