My big, wet dream right now is to have the Ruby language on .NET - that would make me extremely productive!

While C# is a lot better in that respect than Java, it still is a lot of typing in at least two senses of the word. Ruby is simply elegant - as the exception in the post above proves Wink.

While the shorthand is fine, the code may be written like this:

def bfs(e)
    q = Array.new()
    e.mark()
    yield( e )
    q.push( e )
    while not q.empty?()
        u = q.shift()
        u.edge_iterator do |v|
        if not v.marked?()
            v.mark()
            yield( v )
            q.push( v )
        end   
    end
end

bfs(e) { |v| puts( v ) }


...which makes it a little easier to distinguish methods and arguments - but its really just a sprinkle of sugar. If methods and variables had been given meaningful names it would be even easier.