From: Bill Atkins <batkins57@...>
Date: 2004-10-29T07:07:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does Ruby issue this warning?

I think Matz is trying to deprecate the use of multiple method calls
without parentheses, since they can cause ambiguity, e.g.:

  myfunc a b, c

Is it a(b) being passed with c to myfunc, or is a(b, c) being passed to myfunc?

Bill

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 04:33:13 +0900, Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com> wrote:
> This line of code:
> 
>   puts HTTP.get url("collection", MARK)
> 
> results in this warning message:
> 
>   warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
> 
> Of course, heeding the warning and changing the code to:
> 
>   puts HTTP.get(url("collection", MARK))
> 
> eliminates the message. But does anyone know why this is happening?
> 
> Curt
> 
>