From: Gennady Bystritsky <Gennady.Bystritsky@...>
Date: 2007-01-15T03:14:01+09:00
Subject: Re: possible to un-warn?

David Chelimsky 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".

It used not to warn in Ruby 1.6.4, by the way. I also experienced the
same problem when moving to Ruby 1.8.2 in my package manager facility
(http://sf.net/projects/tsc-tpm) that I am going to release soon (after
almost 3 years of active development and use in a number of commercial
projects). I have a Ruby-based DSL there for package description, that
used to have statements like these:

  generate as 'bin/act', source program "project/act.rb"
  install into 'lib/test/accept', source ruby 'project' =>
'test/accept/action.rb'

I had to change it to:

  generate.as('bin/act').source.program "project/act.rb"
  install.into('lib/test/accept').source.ruby 'project' =>
'test/accept/action.rb'

And I like the resulting syntax so much better :-)

Gennady Bystritsky.