[erlang-questions] Funargs: Ruby-like blocks for Erlang

[Tim Watson]

> and that's just three languages I've used that had some way of
> abbreviating a lot of "end"s.  Occam, Python, Haskell, and
> Clean are four languages that eliminate the ends in the first
> place.
>
> This is another example where you cannot patch your way to
> improvement, a whole new front end being needed.
>
> (The hErlang example in my previous message looks as though
> it relies on indentation, but it doesn't.)
>

I actually rather like Python and Haskell's use of indentation - god
forbid I don't want to start a debate about it though.