From: Joe Mason <joe@...>
Date: 2004-01-09T08:31:41+09:00
Subject: Re: block delimiting

In article <Law12-F38fDGCl9FopY000082ac@hotmail.com>, Mike Wilson wrote:
> 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

Oh, god, that's hard to follow!

That means if you forget an end, you get a weird broken block structure
that could do anything.  The whole point of Python's delimiting is that
it's not possible to have a mismatch between what the programmer and the
interpreter think the structure is.

The OP would be better off writing a script to parse his code with
Python-like indentation rules, and add delimiters when appropriate.

Joe