Hal Fulton wrote: > I am not trying to say your concerns are not valid. But every > newbie comes to Ruby and wants to change it. Hey, not true! I didn't say a thing! ^_^ > The top things, as I recall, that people insist Ruby absolutely > HAS TO HAVE are: > 1. significant whitespace as in Python > 2. braces instead of keyword...end > 3. static typing > 4. variable declarations Actually, apart from 3, all of those could easily be handled with a preprocessor. Shouldn't be more than a few days work, I suppose. But, who the friggin heck would want to break a perfectly beautiful language like Ruby with STATIC TYPING??? Regards, 0ffh -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.