From: "Alexandru E. Ungur" <alexandru@...>
Date: 2006-02-27T18:24:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Whitespace Semantics

>>> sender: "Almann Goo" date: "Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:43:35PM +0900" <<<EOQ
> Can someone please explain the semantics behind the following:
> 
> irb(main):001:0> a = ( 4 + 5 )
> => 9
> irb(main):002:0> a = ( 4
> irb(main):003:1>       + 5 )
> => 5
> irb(main):004:0> a = ( 4 +
> irb(main):005:1*       5 )
> => 9
> 
> The first and last statements make sense to me, but why is the second one
> returning 5?
> 
> I find semantics like this troubling, and no documentation sheds light as
> to what would cause this behavior.
This behaviour is documented, at least here:
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/language.html

and probably in other placess too (but I wouldn't know about them as I am
learning Ruby for just a little more than 1 week).


Hope it helps,
Alex