From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-01-20T17:55:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in Ruby with adding strings?

On 19.01.2007 23:07, dflanagan@gmail.com wrote:
> I suspect that having no space after the + makes Ruby think it is a
> unary operator.  And since to_s is a method, Ruby thinks that you're
> passing +'bar' to x.to_s.  This can't be the only problem, though,
> since it is giving you a SyntaxError before it actually complains about
> passing an unexpected argument to to_s...

I think it's trying to parse as

puts('foo' + x.to_s, +'bar')

where the comma is missing.  So it thinks +'bar' is not an argument to 
to_s but to puts.

Regards

	robert