From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-02-04T07:24:28+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR draft for enhanced "case..when..else..end" syntax

Hi,

At Wed, 4 Feb 2004 03:11:35 +0900,
Guoliang Cao wrote:
> Just tried on Ruby 1.6.8. It uses "then" instead of ":". So there's no
> backward incompatibility.

  $ ruby-1.8 -e 'if /^\w+/ =~ "abc": puts $& end'
  abc
  $ ruby-1.8 -e 'case "abc" when /^\w+/: puts $& end'
  abc
  $ ruby-1.8 -e 'while l = gets: p l end'
  abc
  "abc\n"

Now ":" can be placed anywhere instead of "then", and "do" for
loops.

-- 
Nobu Nakada