Eclipse launches new language to cut down Java boilerplate - Extend

Re:Eclipse launches new language to cut down Java boilerplat... by theshadow on Friday November 04, 2011 @07:24PM (#3198167)

Ruby does not get rid of semicolons or brackets. Heck, you can write Java/C++ style curly brace code in Ruby if you wanted.

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Re:Eclipse launches new language to cut down Java boilerplat... by vidarh on Friday November 04, 2011 @10:33PM (#3198670)

Of course, if you did write Java/C++ style curly brace code in Ruby, those of us who like Ruby would bring out the pitchforks.

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Re:Eclipse launches new language to cut down Java boilerplat... by Androsynth on Friday November 04, 2011 @11:05PM (#3198754)

At least then vim would understand it and you wouldn't have to deindent every 'end' yourself. It would be nice to be able to use % and some other stuff that you get with most other languages.

The fact is that the visual style of a language is trivial to get used to. Breaking my text editor is a real issue though.

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Re:Eclipse launches new language to cut down Java boilerplat... by clownz0r on Saturday November 05, 2011 @01:52AM (#3199066)

vim does understand Ruby. As soon as I type end, it automatically de-indents the line 2 spaces. Put this in your ~/.vimrc:

    filetype plugin indent on

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Re:Eclipse launches new language to cut down Java boilerplat... by zem on Monday November 07, 2011 @04:00AM (#3205511)

also matchit.vim to do %-bouncing between keyword/end pairs

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