# Ruby-dev summary 26468-26661

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-dev-summary-26468-26661/19932>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [3 August 2005 17:37 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-dev-summary-26468-26661/19932 "2005-08-03T17:37:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Berger\_Daniel1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecc23a/32.png) [@Berger\_Daniel1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Berger_Daniel1)\
**Post date:** [3 August 2005 17:37 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-dev-summary-26468-26661/19932/1 "2005-08-03T17:37:03Z")

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Blech. It's no cleaner, consistent or uniform to me. Ruby's problems  
have nothing to do with syntax. Stop messing with it please.

Regards,

Dan

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> > -----Original Message-----  
> > From: Navindra Umanee [mailto:navindra@cs.mcgill.ca]  
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 11:33 AM  
> > To: ruby-talk ML  
> > Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661
> > 
> > Takaaki Tateishi \<ttate@ttsky.net\> wrote:  
> > \> [ruby-dev:26623] Ruby2.0BlockParameterNotation  
> > \> Sasada asked about new notation of block parameter. This  
> > issue is summarized  
> > \> at the following sites. Now ruby(HEAD) accepts the notation  
> > \> '-\>(...){...}'.
> > 
> > I like it! Looks much more uniform and consistent with  
> > function syntax than {|...| ...}
> > 
> > Thanks for your summary.
> > 
> > Cheers,  
> > Navin.