<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Mar 5, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Bryan Liles wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>On Feb 27, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient) wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "><DIV style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); ">On Feb 27, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:</SPAN></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; color: rgb(0, 99, 18); "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 99, 18); ">Could you btw make a case for the new Ruby syntax? I never figured out what problem it was supposed to solve.</SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "><DIV style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "><DIV style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); ">The default Ruby syntax doesn't scope enough stuff.</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); ">There are very basic things that are completely missing like </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre; color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); white-space: pre; "> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); ">method calls, operators and lambda variables.</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); ">My Ruby Experimental adds these basic things and a few other niceties like </SPAN><B style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); font-weight: bold; ">leading space</SPAN></B><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "> and </SPAN><B style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); font-weight: bold; ">core library method names</SPAN></B><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "> and </SPAN><B style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); font-weight: bold; ">better punctuation</SPAN></B><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "> support.</SPAN></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><DIV>How do we get this goodness today?</DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Get the Experimental Bundle.</DIV><DIV>Then manually switch languages to Ruby Experimental.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you want to use Ruby Experimental in Rails of Rails RHTML templates then you'll need a few unpublished syntaxes that I have.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://macromates.com/wiki/Main/SubversionCheckout">http://macromates.com/wiki/Main/SubversionCheckout</A></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV>thomas Aylott — <B>subtleGradient </B>— CrazyEgg — sixteenColors</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>