From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T17:21:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible bug in ruby interpreter

2007/7/19, pp <pedro.e.pinto@gmail.com>:
> Hi there,
>
> I found that the expression:
>
> 1*(rand (1) + 1)
>
> will often evaluate to 0. Eliminating the space between rand and
> ( makes the problem go away. Is this a bug?

I'm afraid, the bug is in your keyboard or further up the "invocation"
chain. :-)

rand (1) + 1 is parsed as rand( 1 + 1 ) which sometimes will evaluate
to 0.  Method brackets need to appear directly after the identifier.

robert