From: J Haas <Myrdred@...>
Date: 2009-05-23T00:35:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse)

On May 22, 6:32 am, Reid Thompson <reid.thomp...@ateb.com> wrote:
> It doesn't really.  Or at least only simplistically; by re-writing the
> input code, attempting to place 'end' in the proper place based on
> indentation.  It breaks silently if you happen to misplace your
> whitespace incorrectly, placing an 'end' in the wrong place.

As I said when I posted it:

> It's very short, and pretty simple. I have no doubt that it
> would need a lot of work to be robust.

In its present form, this is not something I want to do in production
code. It does however serve at least one valuable purpose: it
demonstrates that the code snippet that Tony posted, that he
specifically contrived as an example of a piece of Ruby code that
would be utterly impossible to parse without 'end' statements, was in
fact quite easily parsable.