From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2006-05-10T04:08:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Method call syntax

Hi,

Am Dienstag, 09. Mai 2006, 14:10:28 +0900 schrieb Yukihiro Matsumoto:
> In message "Re: Method call syntax"
>     on Tue, 9 May 2006 05:48:13 +0900, mathew <meta@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> |"Omission of parentheses around method arguments may lead to unexpected 
> |results. Note that the Ruby developers have stated that omission of 
> |parentheses may be disallowed in future Ruby versions..."
> 
>  Omission of parentheses around method arguments for method calls in
>  the argument list may make programs hard to read / parse.
> 
> for example,
> 
>   p sprintf "the answer=%d\n",42
> 
> warns like "warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version", and
> recommended code should be
> 
>   p sprintf("the answer=%d\n",42)

I wouldn't mind to take account of a precedence rule, at
best as it currently is. I'm rather annoyed by encountering
these warnings all the time.

Probablyi, I'm not considering some parsing difficulty.

Bertram


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