From: Ryan Leavengood Date: 2001-10-27T05:19:21+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:23520] Re: Issues with white space [was Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby] > (8 20) is a syntax error. Why wouldn't (8 ; 20) be one, too? In what > situation would (8 ; 20) be usefull? > > --- SER irb(main):016:0> s = (puts "creating a string"; "a string") creating a string "a string" irb(main):017:0> s "a string" This is odd, but strangely cool. Ryan