Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:6668] Re: Suggestion for addition to Begin/End syntax"
    on 00/11/30, Steven Grady <grady / scam.xcf.berkeley.edu> writes:

|On a similar note, has the possibility of using more traditional
|brackets (i.e. "{" and "}") been discussed?

Yes.  Somewhere around 0.60, almost 6 years ago.  Braces did not fit
well with other Ruby syntax.

							matz.