From: mental@...
Date: 2006-02-28T07:43:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Whitespace Semantics

Quoting Timothy Goddard <interfecus@gmail.com>:

> It does. 4 is a valid statement in Ruby. Ruby doesn't have the
> same sharp division as many other languages.

Well... not really.  There's the same distinction in Ruby too (see
expr versus compstmt in parse.y).

It's more that Ruby's grammar permits statement lists in places that
many other languages only permit expressions (like inbetween
parenthesis).

-mental