From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-09-29T20:22:41+09:00
Subject: Re: call for commentary: review of Ruby for a magazine (long, sorry!)

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:39:53PM +0900, dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:
> > 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 ;)

A question to the ELISP hackers aboard: Emacs already allows several
modifications of the appearance of code -- I'm thinking about the
hide-show-mode, that hides a block's content and only shows its
header, and the glasses-mode, that shows CamelCase as Camel_Case.

Below the surface, there's still CamelCase, and of course the block
body is still there.  Would it be difficult to hide the `end' keywords
(both in reading and, somehow, in writing), for those fond of
Python's syntax?

Massimiliano