From: raja@... (Raja S.)
Date: 2001-10-29T02:00:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23686] Re: Issues with white space [was Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby]

Lars Christensen <larsch@cs.auc.dk> writes:

>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

It seems like for Ruby

p(2;3)  is syntactically equivalent to:

p(2 
3)

while p((2;3)) is equivalent to:

p((2
3))

Raja