Cool things about Ruby on the way out of Python?

[Warren Postma]

>
> In Python you would write:
>
> for x in [1, 2, 3]:
>     print x
>
> In Ruby you would write:
>
> [1, 2, 3].each do |x|
>     print x
> end
>

Looks like Smalltalk.

So can Rose do this:

(x>y).ifTrue do
    ... something ...
end

If so, then I'd call Rose the conjunction of Pascal begin/end blocks and
Python, and Smalltalk's 'blocks' semantics (|x| is a dead give away
smalltalk-ism).  I don't see what's Perly about it.


Warren