On Friday 03 May 2002 12:40 pm, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>  On Fri, 3 May 2002, Glen Starchman wrote:
>  > I am working on my language again after a long haitus and have a question
>  > for the group in regards to readability of my iterator functionality.
>  > Currently, I am looking at 3 different forms:
>  > 1.
>  > "hello".each()
>  > 	{ |x|
>  > 		print (x)
>  > 	}
>  > I am rather fond of number 3, but am uncertain as to which is the most
>  > readable for maintainers and intuitive for the developer.
> 
>  Number one is Ruby syntax (except that this formatting is not allowed).
>  Number three has the problem that you have to write || for argumentless
>  blocks, which is a problem if you have a || operator as well, because your
> 
>  ||'s are not right after a {.
> 
>  But in any case all this looks very Rubyish, so I wonder why you want to
>  create a new language. What elements will be unique to your language?
> 

All of the various implementations are based on Ruby, to some extent. 
Purposefully, as I like the Ruby Way (tm). ;-)

The reasons behind my language are twofold: 

1) it supports ECMCAScript virtually unmodified
2) it is a fun side learning project