But that's not true, as far as I can tell. Ruby does allow you to write 5.+(8), but as far as I can tell most people prefer 5+8. Ruby also has special syntax fo

But that's not true, as far as I can tell. Ruby does allow you to write 5.+(8), but as far as I can tell most people prefer 5+8. Ruby also has special syntax for <, == and indexing arrays. What things does Python have special syntax for that Ruby doesn't? Off the top of my head I can only remember "in".