From: Matthias Kopfermann <kopfermann@...>
Date: 2001-01-12T02:01:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9146] how to replace `end' with `endif' etc. ?

hi fellows.
As a new user of ruby which is really wonderful i still find these
`while ... end', `if ... end',`def ... end' things ugly ( perhaps that's the
only thing I really don't like at all). I would much more like to
have `endwhile', `endif' `enddef' `endclass'... as it seems to
me, that this makes searching much easier.
i myself can of course use `end#def'  but that still makes code from
others hard to read for me. I would be very interested in
people having the same problems and solving them with some clever
regular expressions so that every `end' is commented like
`end#def' and so on.

Or should it be possible to train ruby to use endif, enddef,
endclass and so on :) ?

ps: i didn't like the bracing of C ( the same problem or even
      worse ) as the closed brace means many different things but
      at least i can jump to the beginning with `%' in my vi.