Ruby and white-space delimitation?

Iwan van der Kleyn <none@none.net> writes:

All the "end"s are rather superflous and its a bore to fix them and
their indentation while refactoring. So my question is: couldn't the
"end" statement be made optional through some global switch or signal
to the parser?

I think this sort of thing has come up before. Certainly the whole
"significant indentation" issue's been rehashed again and again. It
seems most rubyists prefer the `end's.