From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-01-18T10:21:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Obscure syntax error


On Jan 17, 2011, at 14:56 , Abinoam Jr. wrote:

>> I think the explanation is simple: you (most likely) found a bug in the parser.
>> 
>> You should report this to ruby-core@
> 
> In my humble opinion I think it's even simpler than that.
> ...
> If you have an object (expression returning an object reference) what
> are the syntactic constructs allowed after that?

A symbol should be allowed anywhere any other literal is allowed.

> % echo 'x = nil; x "y"' | ruby -c
> Syntax OK
> % echo 'x = nil; x :y' | ruby -c
> -:1: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting $end
> % echo 'x = nil; x :"y"' | ruby -c
> -:1: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting $end