From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-07-28T21:41:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Weird problem with case expressions

Hi --

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Matthew Smillie wrote:

> On Jul 28, 2006, at 12:45, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
>
>> I have no problem doing this:
>>
>>  if foo :bar then
>>    ...
>>  end
>
> Which is odd, 'cause I get this error:
>
> c = [something]
> if c :foo then
> puts "blah"
> end
> SyntaxError: compile error
> (irb):3: parse error, unexpected kTHEN, expecting kEND
>       from (irb):5
>       from :0
>
>
> What would you expect an expression of the form 'c :symbol' to mean in the 
> first place?

I think in Daniel's example foo is a method, and :bar is a method
argument.


David

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