[ruby-core:61667] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9669] Inconsistent SyntaxError in Ruby 2.1 mandatory keyword arguments definition without parentheses.

Issue #9669 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada.


Or put a semicolon after `b:`.

Matthew Kerwin wrote:
> I think Ruby should drop the line continuation, and interpret all three code samples like the second case above, even though it might be hard to solve with the current parser.

Do you mean *all* line continuations?

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Bug #9669: Inconsistent SyntaxError in Ruby 2.1 mandatory keyword arguments definition without parentheses.
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9669#change-45922

* Author: Teja Sophista
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Category: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 2.1.1
* Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN
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Ruby allowed us to define method with arguments without parentheses.

~~~
def foo a:, b:
  'bar'
end
#=> :foo

def foo a:, b:
  puts 'bar'
end
#=> syntax error
~~~



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