From: Zsban Ambrus <ambrus@...>
Date: 2004-12-23T19:51:30+09:00
Subject: Re: implicit string concatenation

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 02:20:40AM +0900, Mark Hubbart wrote:
> The statement above is functionally the same as this:
>   puts(("foo";"bar"))

Indeed

> As for the SyntaxError in the OP's message, this is (apparently)
> because ruby sees it as two statements, and you can't have more than
> one statement inside the method call parens. 

So that's for the same reason why this
  puts(3+
  8)
works, but this
  puts(3
  +8)
does not. 

Thx for explainig.

ambrus