From: nobu@... Date: 2014-07-31T03:34:30+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:64134] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6265] Remove 'useless' 'concatenation' syntax Issue #6265 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada. I'm against it, it's not "useless" to me. ---------------------------------------- Feature #6265: Remove 'useless' 'concatenation' syntax https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6265#change-48146 * Author: Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas * Status: Assigned * Priority: Normal * Assignee: Yui NARUSE * Category: core * Target version: next minor ---------------------------------------- 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. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/