From: arthur8@... (Arthur)
Date: 2003-07-31T19:38:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby could be wildly more popular if it had ...

"Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote in message news:<60107.203.185.214.34.1059543084.squirrel@webmail.imagineis.com>...
> > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 22:30, Robert Klemme wrote:
> >
> >> My solution is to use {} for one line blocks and do..end for more
> >> complicated things.
> >
> > I tried this style for a while.  But then every time I added lines to a
> > one-line block, I had to change {} to do/end.
> >
> > Today I normally used {} on all blocks, except in Rake files.
> 
> 
> My take is: {} are for functional blocks; do..end for procedural blocks. 
> That shows me which expressions are important for their results, and which
> are not.
> 
> Gavin


This sounds very interesting.  Can you expand upon this a little? 
What do you take as the difference between procedural blocks and
funcitonal blocks?  Can you provide an example?

Thanks,

Arthur