From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2007-01-15T02:35:15+09:00
Subject: Re: possible to un-warn?

On 1/14/07, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on implementing expectation matchers in rspec, so instead of this:
>
>   cat.should_eat "tuna"
>
> you would write this:
>
>   cat.should eat "tuna"
>
> Now the rub is that this generates "warning: parenthesize argument(s)
> for future version". The thing is that, in this case, we know with
> some certainty that everything after "eat" is an argument to "eat",
> and that the result of "eat" is an argument to "should".
>
> I'd like the ability to be able to tell the interpreter that this is
> intentional and to not warn in this case, and I don't want to
> accomplish this by turning off all warnings. Is this doable? Does this
> strike anybody as nuts? If so, please explain.
>
> The reason I want to do this is that I've run this new syntax by a few
> people. Those who write a lot of ruby (not necessarily rails) are
> perfectly happy writing it like this:
>
> cat.should eat("tuna") #produces no warning
>
> But, those who write a lot of ruby on rails, not so much. The parens
> are not railsy.
>
> In the end, using matchers is a much more flexible and maintainable
> approach to expectations, so it's likely that it will become "the
> way". The question is whether we can keep all the rails developers who
> are already using rspec happy without having to maintain two methods
> to achieve the same goal.
>

Unfortunately this happens in parse.y, without any conditional code
around it. To my knowledge, there is no way to disable the warning
without recompiling Ruby.