From: Brian Mitchell <binary42@...>
Date: 2008-04-07T00:36:06+09:00
Subject: Re: syntax request


On Apr 6, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Joachim Wuttke <j.wuttke@fz-juelich.de>  
wrote:
>> Good point! I always just thought that would work, because the  
>> parser should skip linefeeds until it satisfies the ( with a ).
>
> parentheses should also solve the problem with arithmetic expressions:
>
> y = x
>  + 9
>
> will remain impossible, but there is no reason why
>
> y = ( x
>    + 9 )
>
> or
>
> y = (
>      x
>    + 9
>    )
>
> should not work.

In ruby, (2; 3) is a valid expression so the newline could be  
misinterpreted quite easily still.

Brian.