From: Adam Gardner <adam.oddfellow@...>
Date: 2009-04-09T23:35:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash questions


> From what I can tell, ruby is interpreting the beginning of your hash as 
> the beginning of a block, instead;
> p({"foo" => 1, "bar" => 2, "baz" => 3 }) works as intended.
> 
> This is seems like a bug to me, although whether it's a bug with the 
> parser (finding a block where it should be looking for a hash literal), 
> a bug with p (asking for a block when it doesn't use one) or the 
> documentation (failing to mention that p accepts a block), I'm not sure.

Actually, on a bit more inspection, both puts and print work the same 
way, and I imagine there are other methods that do this as well. This 
just seems like the parser failing to correctly interpret the ambiguity 
of a {.
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