From: Pixel <pixel@...>
Date: 2001-10-27T03:58:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23491] Re: Issues with white space [was Re: Bruce Eckel's  opinion of Ruby]

Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:

> >... 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.

[...]

> 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.

alas, you can't plug in easily the python rule, otherwise this gets illegal:

i = (
     j += 1
     j * 2
     )

since ruby doesn't have the expression/statement distinction.