From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-08-29T19:09:07+09:00
Subject: Re: syntax error, unexpected kELSE

Hi --

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Dave Bass wrote:

> David A. Black wrote:
>> Strictly speaking it's not a syntax error.
>
> As the ++ and -- notations are so common in other languages, and some of
> us speak several of those languages, might it be helpful to have a low
> level warning issued by Ruby?

I don't think so. I prefer not to have Ruby apologize for not being
Perl or C :-) It's better to save warnings for things that have to do
with Ruby itself. Also, learning about += is a kind of rite of passage
:-)


David

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