From: Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T21:47:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Weird problem with case expressions

On Jul 28, 2006, at 13:41, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

> 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.

Ah, that would explain it.  I admit the method/variable ambiguity  
didn't even occur to me.

matthew smillie.