From: Lars Christensen <larsch@...>
Date: 2001-10-28T07:29:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23651] Re: Issues with white space [was Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, ts wrote:

> >>>>> "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
> pigeon%

I am a bit surprised by this, because my attempt to do this did not work.
Why are such expression separation not allowed in this case:

$ ruby -e 'p (2;3)'
-e:1: parse error
p (2;3)
     ^

$ ruby -e 'p ((2;3))'
3



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Lars Christensen, larsch@cs.auc.dk