Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)

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From: Luke Kanies
Subject: Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)
Date: 23:51 on 13 Oct 2005
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Peter da Silva wrote:

> That's what has kept me from really digging in to Ruby. It's got too much
> syntax. What kind of introspection can it REALLY support if it doesn't
> define control structures in terms of introspection like Lisp-family
> languages or Smalltalk?

I think I need more information here...  Can you point me somewhere that
would help me explain what you are talking about?

I believe Ruby's control structures are intrinsic to the language, but the
only control structures I ever seem to use are 'if', 'case', and blocks.

I guess I don't really see how introspection is related to how control
structures are defined, but then, I've already shown many times that I'm a
newbie when it comes to language design.  Kinda sad, since I'm now writing
and maintaining a (thankfully not general purpose) language.

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