From: "rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)" Date: 2012-10-27T01:57:18+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:48311] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6265] Remove 'useless' 'concatenation' syntax Issue #6265 has been updated by rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas). I actually agree ---------------------------------------- Feature #6265: Remove 'useless' 'concatenation' syntax https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6265#change-31616 Author: rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas) Status: Feedback Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: core Target version: 2.0.0 What is wrong with this code: some_method 'argument1', 'argument2' 'argument3' Yes, the missing colon, but it is not always easy to notice that... What is this ('concatenation' 'syntax') useful for? Why writing ('some ' 'concatenation') instead of 'some concatenation'? A missing colon between string arguments can lead to some bugs that may be hard to find, specially if the arguments are optional. And I can't see any useful case where this allowed syntax for concatenation would help. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/