If you're returning who cares about the scope? Are you saying visually you'd like to have indentation inside the if body? If that's the case there is also nothing stopping you in most languages from doing something as nasty as:
I do because return means end of scope. Except in your example it hides the fact that it's creating it's own scope.
I'm not arguing other languages can't produce bad code, just that ruby is particularly suited for it especially as number of developers working on code increases. I've seen people propose a linter to enforce consistency - but at that point I might as well chose a language with better design choices - plenty of alternatives these days.
> I've seen people propose a linter to enforce consistency - but at that point I might as well chose a language with better design choices - plenty of alternatives these days.
You're seriously proposing that adding a linter has the same organizational costs as changing languages entirely. Meanwhile, back in the real world...
Ruby has major advantages over many other languages and a linter is basic tooling you should have in every development environment.
