From: Eric Schwartz Date: 2003-08-21T09:52:08+09:00 Subject: Re: Punctuation as noise "Hal E. Fulton" writes: > For example, the parentheses in a C "if" > statement annoy me. The terminating semicolon > in many languages is slightly annoying. The > frequent colons in Python bother me. And let's > not even get into Perl. One of the hardest things for me to get used to in Ruby still is the lack of braces and semicolons. Without braces, I'm always nervous about where my statments are beginning and ending (ruby-mode.el doesn't seem to let me use {forward,backward}-sexp to move around blocks), and without semicolons (or statment delimiter of choice), I'm always a bit nervous about where a statement is ending. It's not hard to write a test or two to verify my assumptions, but I still feel a bit uneasy about it. Silly, I know, but no sillier than your being annoyed by them, I'm sure. :) I ran your program over my test harness code, and my Perl code is about 2:1, where my Ruby is more like 3-4:1. I honestly don't know why. -=Eric -- Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare. -- Blair Houghton.