From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2001-11-21T23:13:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26019] Re: positive

Tobias Reif wrote:
> very nice; I'd like to use that. But how can I
> p (10-40).pos
> ?
> I get
> " undefined method `pos' for nil (NameError)"
> ruby 1.6.3 (2001-03-19) [i386-cygwin]

Isn't this the good ol' parsing problem with puts (and p too), where it
is parsed as
	(p (10-40)).pos
and the call to p returns nil.

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