Why Ruby?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:ie2sv2$2thb$1 at digitalmars.com...
> We already have a D block syntax!
>
> =====
>
> void myfun(void delegate() lol) {
>        lol();
> }
>
> void main() {
>        myfun = {
>                assert(0, "lol");
>        };
> }
>
> ======
>
> Totally compiles. :-P
>
> It works with delegate arguments too!
>
> ========
>
> void myfun(void delegate(string) lol) {
>        lol("say it ");
> }
>
> void main() {
>        myfun = (string what) {
>                assert(0, what ~ " lol");
>        };
> }
> ==========
>
> Whoa.
>
>
>
> (note that while I'm only a little serious here - that actually
> looks fine to me - I don't think the language needs a change
> here. }); doesn't bother me one bit.)

I'm sure that's going to disappear when D's properties get implemented as 
intended.