From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2005-12-09T10:11:29+09:00
Subject: Re: do/end vs braces

On Thursday 08 December 2005 06:06 pm, Jacob Fugal wrote:
> On 12/8/05, Steve Litt <slitt@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Except I can't put in the parentheses:
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/ruby
> > my_array = ["alpha", "beta", "gamma"]
> > puts (my_array.collect do
> >
> >         |word|
> >
> >         word.capitalize
> > end)
> >
> > Output:
> > [slitt@mydesk slitt]$ ./test.rb
> > ./test.rb:3: syntax error
> > ./test.rb:6: syntax error
>
> Take out the space between puts and the open paren:

Confirmed! Thanks Jacob. This is the first time I've seen Ruby conflict with 
the Rule of Least Surprise (http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch11s01.html).

Is there any chance of a Ruby change so as not to require the paren to be 
flush up against the function name?

Thanks

SteveT

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