From: Paul Prescod <paul@...>
Date: 2001-10-27T03:04:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23484] Re: Issues with white space [was Re: Bruce Eckel's  opinion of Ruby]

"Raja S." wrote:
> 
>... Unlike Python, Ruby has some ability to automatically detect when an
> expression is spanning multiple lines:

Well, since you mentioned Python...

Python also automatically detects, but in different situations.

> 1 + 2 +             # sees a plus and correctly assumes the expression is
>    3     =>  6      # not yet over;  smart parsing !  no need for explicit
>                     # continuation

>>> print (8 +
...    20)/2
14

The parens are a very explicit way of saying that an expression is not
over.

> 1 + 2               # presumes the expression is over
>   + 3               # this is an entirely different line of code

Ruby's behaviour confuses even Ruby programmers like Johann, SER and
you. The behaviour they expected is precisely the Python behaviour.

 Paul Prescod