From: Gennady <gfb@...>
Date: 2004-01-09T06:28:12+09:00
Subject: Re: block delimiting

Pete Yadlowsky wrote:
> On Thursday 08 January 2004 03:46 pm, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> 
> 
>>I chose not to learn Python because of the crap called syntactically
>>significant whitespace.
> 
> 
> I avoided Python also, for the same reason. Then one day I decided to dive in 
> and learn it anyway in spite of myself. And I found I rather liked it. The 
> taboo of significant whitespace turned out to be a big non-issue very early 
> in my study. I'd been coding that way for years anyway, just with superfluous 
> block delimiters of various sorts. Python made them unnecessary. It's my hope 
> that Ruby might keep them that way. Then it will be perfect.
> 
> 
>>Python's blocking solves the problem of readable
>>code the wrong way.
> 
> 
> What's the right way?
> 
> 

It looks like an invitation to a flame war. If you are so sensitive to 
"end" delimiters that it became the first "problem" you decided to 
discuss as a newby, than may be Ruby is not for you (or you are not for 
Ruby). Delimiters are the least "frustration" you will feel if you 
expect Ruby to be like Python (or anything else).

Gennady.