From: Yusuke ENDOH <mame@...>
Date: 2010-09-03T12:34:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:32028] Re: Parsing of 'not'

Hi,

2010/9/1 Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>:
> Is the following intentional?
>
>>> puts(not 3 < 4)
> SyntaxError: compile error
> (irb):4: syntax error, unexpected kNOT, expecting ')'
> puts(not 3 < 4)
>        ^
> (irb):4: syntax error, unexpected ')', expecting $end
>      from (irb):4
>      from :0


My personal opinion is that it is NOT intentional "willingly".  But
it would be difficult to fix it because of yacc's restriction.

If anyone successfully write a patch that causes no parser conflict
nor compatibility problem, the patch will be probably accepted, I
guess.

-- 
Yusuke Endoh <mame@tsg.ne.jp>