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steveklabnik on July 1, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why Python over Ruby?

Just as a quick note, you can use '{' and '}' instead of 'do' and 'end' if you want. Standard conventions say that one line blocks get {}, and multi-line ones get do-end.

peskytruth on July 1, 2009 [–]

Just for blocks/procs. Method definitions still require def/end.

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