From: "Mauricio Fern�ndez" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-09-26T21:22:05+09:00
Subject: Re: call for commentary: review of Ruby for a magazine (long, sorry!)

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:41:29AM +0900, William Djaja Tjokroaminata wrote:
> Bugs  :
> * Some of the syntax, which is not as short or as minimum as
> in Python.  But I have written my own syntax for Ruby.

What do you mean by "[your] own syntax"? 
Have you changed Ruby's parser or (I suspect) written a preprocessor?
Could you elaborate a little more on the parts of the syntax you didn't like?

I've been lately thinking of the coolness of having several different
syntaxes for the same underlying "language", especially if some tool is
able to translate between them... Imagine having a Python-esque syntax
w/ significant spaces in Ruby. That could for sure lure some pythonists ;)

I think many people care too much about syntax, as it's only a
superficial feature of the language you can quickly get used to. I'd be
great to preemptively abort any further flamewars on such shallow topics
as "syntax by indentation rules!!!" or " '() suck!".

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