From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2008-08-02T06:05:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Help finding this syntax error

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Patrick Li <patrickli_2001@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm that makes more sense.
> But now i'm confused why my code worked after removing the outside
> parenthesis.
>
> when i type this:
> if FieldTypes.key? field && FieldTypes[field].respond_to? :select
>
> shouldn't ruby be seeing this?
> if (FieldTypes.key? field && FieldTypes[field].respond_to?) :select
>
> which is still a syntax error?
>
> Am i calculating what i think i'm calculating?

No idea.  Adapting your code a bit but using a similar syntax:

>> hash = {}
=> {}
>> field = :foo
=> :foo
>> if hash.key? field && hash[field].respond_to? :select
>>   p 'foo'
>> end
SyntaxError: (irb):53: syntax error, unexpected tSYMBEG, expecting
keyword_then or ';' or '\n'
if hash.key? field && hash[field].respond_to? :select
                                               ^
(irb):55: syntax error, unexpected keyword_end, expecting $end
        from /Users/sandal/lib/ruby19/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'

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