From: Harry Spidor <list.push@...>
Date: 2007-05-02T12:26:02+09:00
Subject: Re: strangeness with string concatenation and function return values

On 5/2/07, Jesse Merriman <jesse.d.merriman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 May 2007 22:27, Mike Steiner wrote:
> > I get an error when running code snippet A, but if I change it to B, there's
> > no error. I'm not familiar enough with Ruby to know why this is. Could
> > someone explain this?
> >
>
> You can't have that space between ReturnString and the parenthesis (you sure
> like lots of spaces, eh?). Here's one way of doing it that should work:
>
> def return_string
>   'abc'
> end
>
> File.open('junk.txt', 'w') do |f|
>   f.puts return_string
> end
>
>
> --
> Jesse Merriman
> jessemerriman@warpmail.net
> http://www.jessemerriman.com/
>
>

Jesse explained the problem.
I ran your code and there were no errors in one version but there were
warnings about the spaces before parentheses. It is a good idea to
heed warnings and try to make them go away.

Harry

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