agree. I've never really considered anything about Javascript's syntax to be cumbersome. I've written server-side Ruby and appreciate the syntax... But two poi

agree. I've never really considered anything about Javascript's syntax to be cumbersome. I've written server-side Ruby and appreciate the syntax... But two points: 1) The syntax wasn't the only thing that drew me to Ruby. 2) I just don't see an any real need morph my JS code into a similar syntax. Writing JS is pretty easy.