"J Haas" <Myrdred / gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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>This was my point. It would be good to still have the option of
>freeform indentation. Much Ruby code _isn't_ presently canonically
>formatted, and it'd break if put through your preprocessor. One
>solution to this would be to only activate the preprocessor on a per-
>file basis, but I think a better solution would be for the
>preprocessor not to damage existing code. The ultimate goal in the
>long term should be to make this style part of core Ruby syntax rather
>than the result of a preprocessor, and the best way to do that would
>be for the parser to be able to distinguish between indentation-aware
>blocks and "old-style" blocks.

If it would be strictly optional it would be fine.
Should be need to be explicitely allowed for not breaking existent code.
Maybe as gem possible.


However, Ruby is about 10 years old now, Python and its insertion is even 
older.
If it would be so superior, didn't you think it would have been widely 
accepted in the mean time?
And would have been spread over to other scripting languages already?