Lähettäjä: Johannes Ahl-mann <softpro@gmx.net>
Aihe: mandatory braceshi,
i've been playing around with ruby a bit and have a proposal to make.
i am sure that ruby won't adopt it right away and maybe it goes too much
against the ruby way. also, if this has been discussed earlier here, i
apologize for not researching ;-))if ruby made braces (the round ones
mandatory this would produce
some very nice effects and break nothing except for backward compatibility
(i think). regarding the backward compatibility one could even introduce
a new command-line switch to explicitely activate the "new" syntax.
a few things would become possible:- differentiation between method bindings and method applications, i.e.
"function1(function2)" instead of "function1(method(:function2))
Just skipping the method() step might be enough? The visual cue from
a Symbol would seem to be equivalent to parens, so:
function1(function2) # Calls function1 with the result of function2
function1(:function2) # Calls function1 with a Proc/Method object
- procedure objects could be treated similarly to functions:
"myproc()" instead of "myproc.call()"
An overridable operator () would be useful.
- ruby code would look more uniform, because at the moment the mixing
of braces and no-braces drives me crazy *gg*
- on the negative side this would force braces for methods "yield",
"print", "puts", "break", etc.
please tell me whether this is a bad idea,
Well, only for the fact that it would mandate extra typing 
Johannes
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