From: Pixel <pixel@...>
Date: 2001-10-27T03:50:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23489] Re: Issues with white space [was Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby]

ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:

> >>>>> "S" == Sean Russell <ser@efn.org> writes:
> 
> S> Raja S. wrote:
> >> puts( (����8
> >> +�20)�/�2) => 10
> 
> S> This is really, really bizarre.  Can anyone explain to me why this is true? 
> S> A parse error, I could understand... but 10?
> 
> pigeon% ruby -e 'puts((8 ; + 20) / 2)'
> 10

I think the easiest way to catch this is to warn for unused constants alike
C's compiler:

% echo 'int main() { 1 ; return 0; }' > /tmp/t.c && gcc -Wall /tmp/t.c
/tmp/t.c:1: warning: statement with no effect

uh?