From: Mike Wilson <wmwilson01@...>
Date: 2004-01-09T05:24:28+09:00
Subject: Re: block delimiting


>From: Pete Yadlowsky <pmy@virginia.edu>
>Hi,
>
>I'm a Perl -> Python -> Ruby convert and new to this mailing list.
>
>I like Ruby very much except for one thing: all those "end" tokens 
>scattered
>everywhere. For my style of coding, they are superfluous and, in my 
>opinion,
>only serve to clutter the code. I very much like Python's indent blocking
>style and would like to use it with Ruby. Indenting does everything I need 
>it
>to do in terms of establishing structure and enhancing readability. Once 
>you
>get used to this style (I've been using it for just about all languages and
>for longer than Python has existed), delimiter tokens become unnecessary 
>and
>unwanted.
>


I suppose that it's not to your liking to simply do something like:

$ cat test.rb
puts "hello"

def myfunc
    puts "in myfunc"
    puts "finishing"; end

def iffunc
    something = false
    something_else = true

    if something == true
        puts "in an if"
        elsif something_else == true
             puts "nope, I'm here"; end

    puts "ending iffunc"; end

myfunc
iffunc
puts "done"

$ ./test.rb
hello
in myfunc
finishing
nope, I'm here
ending iffunc
done


Visually, it's the same effect, IMHO...

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