<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 27, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient) wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><DIV>On Feb 27, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Could you btw make a case for the new Ruby syntax? I never figured out what problem it was supposed to solve.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>The default Ruby syntax doesn't scope enough stuff.</DIV><DIV>There are very basic things that are completely missing like </DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>method calls, operators and lambda variables.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">My Ruby Experimental adds these basic things and a few other niceties like <B>leading space</B> and <B>core library method names</B> and <B>better punctuation</B> support.</SPAN></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>How do we get this goodness today?</DIV></BODY></HTML>