From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2001-08-23T06:21:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20125] Re: Maximum Surprise

Bob Gustafson wrote:
> Is there anything reasonable which could be done in the parsing stage to
> flag "lots.keys do |k| end" as problematic syntax?

Probably not.

lots.keys is a method call, and how many arguments or wheter it takes a
block, can't be assured when it is parsed. (The method may not even
exist when the call is parsed.)

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