From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-08-19T03:13:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax checker wtf?

On 8/18/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Yes, that's a contrived example, but as far as I'm concerned, if end of
> line terminates a "statement", then continuation of a line should
> require an *explicit* continuation designator, such as "\".

Um. I'd accept your statement, except that lines *aren't* statements
in Ruby. They're expressions. It does make a bit of a difference to
the whole thing. If an expression is complete on a line, then it's a
complete expression. If it isn't, then it isn't and Ruby keeps
looking. IMO, sensibly.

-austin
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