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> And you're not going to get anywhere by acting as if significant  
> indentation is a must-have for Ruby or any other language.

I never said it was.  In fact, in my response to you I didn't mention  
significant indentation at all.  I disagreed with the current anti- 
conciseness arguments.   I suggested that if you want to argue against  
a language feature then you need stronger arguments than terse is hard  
to read.    Possibly the problem is the term terse is being used  
incorrectly.  It doesn't mean hard to read.   Terse may mean "smoothly  
elegant, neat, clean, easy to understand, or even brusque.  But it  
doesn't mean hard to read.

I'm perfectly happy if you have good arguments against any particular  
language feature including significant indentation.   I'll be happy to  
agree with your criticisms If I can find some validity in them.   I  
don't own stock in any language features.

I am a bit intrigued by these indentation ideas though.  In both human  
and computer languages we tend to shorten things that we use often --  
even if it makes them irregular.    The 'end' word is one of the most  
common things in Ruby.  Possibly the most common line in Ruby contains  
nothing but 'end'.  It's perfectly reasonable to think about the  
possibility of shortening it.