From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-12-22T00:59:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with case statements

On Dec 21, 2007 9:01 AM, murphy <murphy@rubychan.de> wrote:
> >>>> 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]

I suspect that it's gone because of a conflict with the new keyword
style hash literal syntax in 1.9.

On the other hand changing the colon to a semi-colon will work.

   when :first; find_first(options)



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