From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2009-05-27T20:37:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse)

> This script uses RubyLexer to extract a stream of tokens and modify
> it, then turn those tokens back into ruby code. Since RubyLexer is a
> complete stand-alone lexer, this should be a very thorough solution,
> free of insoluable little problems due to the script's inability to
> follow where comments and strings start and stop. (That said, I'm sure
> there will be some problems with it, as it's pretty raw code.)
> 
> As different programs have a variety of interpretations as to the
> width of a tab character, tabs for indentation are absolutely
> forbidden by endless.rb.
> 
> If you're interested, please see:
> http://gist.github.com/117694

Could you post us a few examples of what code formatted this way looks 
like (or must look like)? I assume it handles here documents well?

The italics part of that gist is somewhat hard to read :)

@Michael:
I don't think having "either or" syntax would be such a terrible thing 
in terms of team re-use or resources--you should be able to convert the 
code back and forth at will (a la ruby2ruby, parsetree [rubylexer has a 
parsetree compatibility mode] etc.)
Cheers!
-=r
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