From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2001-09-11T22:49:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21142] Re: Is this a problem with puts?

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Ryan Tarpine wrote:

> For me, 'puts (42 .. 257).type' prints Range while 'puts(42 .. 257).type'
> prints 42..257.  (More) intelligence in 1.7?

What happens if you run the interpreter with the -w option?  In 1.6.4, a
warning is emitted:

[pbrannan@zaphod pbrannan]$ ruby -w -e 'puts (42..257).type'
-e:1: warning: puts (...) interpreted as method call
42..257
[pbrannan@zaphod pbrannan]$ ruby -w -e 'puts(42..257).type'
42..257

Paul