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

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