From: Jan Lelis <prog@...>
Date: 2010-07-11T20:37:19+09:00
Subject: Re: what about allowing to specify, which end belongs to which start?

Thank you for all the opinions :)

Robert wrote:
> endclass
> endmodule
> enddef
> endbegin
> endif
> endunless
> endwhile
> enduntil
> endfor
> enddo
> endcase
> 
> Did I miss one?
> 
> Each of those would be then alternatively allowed to "end", so you
could 
> write
> 
> begin
>    if foo
>    else
>      case x
>      when y
>      when z
>      endcase
>    end
> endbegin
> 
> I still don't like it.
> 

I agree, that does not look good. But with a little punctation, it
becomes more readable:

begin
   if foo
   else
     case x
     when y
     when z
     end~case
   end
end~begin

Also compare the readability of the whole list with the token version:

end~class
end~module
end~def
end~begin
end~if
end~unless
end~while
end~until
end~for
end~do
end~case

The token version might be easier to implement, but I think, it is not
satisfying.

Caleb wrote:
> I could write a RubyLexer-based preprocessor which does this pretty
> easily. However, I'm not terribly motivated. This doesn't seem like
> that useful a feature to me and I've got so much else to work on....

Cool :). I also want to try to implement it in some way, but at the
earliest in about a month (also have too many things to do).

@Brian
Thank you for this neat 1.9 indention warning hint :)