From: murphy <murphy@...>
Date: 2007-12-21T23:01:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with case statements

>>>> 57:      case args.first
>>>> 58:      when :first: find_first(options)
>>>> 59:      when :all: find_all(options)
>>>> 60:      else raise "Invalid find"
>>>> 61:      end
>>>> `require': /home/hemant/push_server/lib/db_connection.rb:58: syntax
>>>> error, unexpected ':', expecting keyword_then or ',' or ';' or
>>>> '\n' (SyntaxError)
>>>>       when :first: find_first(options)
>>>>                   ^
>> Looks like they deprecated ":" in case statements.
you can replace them with ";" or "then" to be Ruby 1.8 and 1.9
compatible. but it's ugly. I prefer the colon variant.

can we have the colon back, matz? at least for "case".
[murphy]