From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2010-10-10T00:20:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:32732] Re: [Ruby 1.9-Bug#3922][Open] Syntax awkwardness

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:32731] [Ruby 1.9-Bug#3922][Open] Syntax awkwardness"
    on Sat, 9 Oct 2010 22:39:10 +0900, Lasse Fabisch <redmine@ruby-lang.org> writes:

|[code]
|1 + (2; 1) #=> 2
|puts(1; 2) #=> syntax error
|puts((1; 2)) # like: puts 2
|puts (3)*2 #=> 6
|puts(3)*2 #=> nil-error
|puts (1; 2) #=> syntax error
|puts (1; 2)*3 #=> syntax error
|puts ((1; 2))*3 # like: puts 6
|[/code]
|
|IMO this is awkward behavior (but maybe it is intended). I think the same results can be achieved with a newline instead of ';'.

It's intended.  Do you have any proposal of 'non-awkward' syntax?

							matz.