From: Brent Roman Date: 2007-10-27T02:22:10+09:00 Subject: Re: Fluent programming in Ruby I suppose you could have irb require a terminating ';' to disambiguate: irb(main):001:0> puts "hello" irb(main):002:1; .upcase irb(main):003:1; ; HELLO This feels very cumbersome to me. Please don't let it come to this. I'd much prefer irb not accept the "fluent ." - brent