I don't think the point you were making has any validity. It's not semantic-lawyering given that other ways of defining methods are common in larger Ruby code-b

I don't think the point you were making has any validity. It's not semantic-lawyering given that other ways of defining methods are common in larger Ruby code-bases, so you're already going to need to deal with a variety of far more complex things. If "end-less" defs is enough to throw you, then perhaps Ruby just isn't the language for you, and that's fine.