From: mental@...
Date: 2006-01-24T07:43:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Line breaking in Ruby can be dangerous

Quoting Florian Frank <flori@nixe.ping.de>:

> "1 * 2" and "+ 1" are both valid ruby expressions, the latter
> "(unary +)
> 1". How should Ruby find out, that you wanted to continue your
> first expression in the next line?

The parenthesis.  It shouldn't parse if they were treated as
separate expressions.

-mental