From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2008-04-24T18:38:47+09:00
Subject: Puzzeling little inconsistency

I just stumbled upon this, not sure what is going on here. BTW Ruby,
Ruby1.9 and JRuby behave all the like.

546/46 > cat syntax.rb && echo "--->" && ruby syntax.rb
module M
  def % z
    puts z
  end
  extend self
  self % "Top"  # Line Fourty Two
end

extend M
% "Hi"
send "%", "Low"
o = Object.new.extend M
o % "Bottom"
--->
Top
Low
Bottom

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Additionally if you remove self from line Fourty Two, you get a synatx error.

syntax.rb:9: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting kEND
syntax.rb:13: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting kEND
---------------------------------------------------------------------

I am quite puzzled, any explanations?

Cheers
Robert

-- 
http://ruby-smalltalk.blogspot.com/

---
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Ludwig Wittgenstein