From: Mark Wilden Date: 2006-02-28T12:33:37+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Whitespace Semantics wrote in message news:1141077603.44037663a7bb3@www.rydia.net... Quoting mark@mwilden.com: >> Ah. I thought a semicolon terminated a statement. >It does; it's just that the current Ruby grammar permits multiple >statements within the same set of parenthesis (separated by >semicolons or newlines). I guess a = ( 4 ; + 5 ) is not so different from C's a = ( 4 , + 5 ) Live and learn! :)