From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-09-30T17:45:20+09:00
Subject: Re: quick question: continuing Ruby methods on different line

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Eric Gross wrote:
> 
>> If you have a long method call like:
>>
>>
>> some.long.method.call
>>
>> how can i make it
>>
>> some.long (next line)
>> .method.call

You just need to place the dot in the first line:

some.long.
method.call

Or you have to escape the line ending
some.long\
.method.call

> harp:~ > cat a.rb
> p Time\
> now
> 
> harp:~ > ruby a.rb
> Fri Sep 29 20:59:45 MDT 2006

How did you get that to work?  I think you're missing a point here. :-)

$ ruby <<XXX
 > puts Time\
 > now
 > XXX
-:1: uninitialized constant Timenow (NameError)

But these work

$ ruby <<XXX
 > puts Time.
 > now
 > XXX
Sat Sep 30 10:42:14 GMT+1:00 2006

$ ruby <<XXX
 > puts Time\
 > .now
 > XXX
Sat Sep 30 10:43:18 GMT+1:00 2006

Kind regards

	robert