From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-03-01T16:40:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Subclassing Struct.new

Hi,

In message "Re: Subclassing Struct.new"
    on Wed, 1 Mar 2006 14:34:28 +0900, MenTaLguY <mental@rydia.net> writes:

|Will the Ruby2.0 grammar no longer have variable/method ambiguities?

I'm not sure what you meant by "ambiguities".  The identifiers not
assigned in the scope will be treated as method calls, as well as in
current behavior.

|Otherwise, it'd be supremely nasty to parse.  As far as I can figure
|out, you'd have to do it in multiple passes...

I'd use a technique called back patching to avoid multiple passes.

							matz.