From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-04-12T09:36:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Is this behavior correct?

Hi --

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Dave Thomas wrote:

> David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:
>
> > So the second Bar.new has no argument, and the ("Beta") is just sort
> > of sitting there.  I'm not sure of the exact formulation of the
> > rule...  (see Pickaxe), but the newline will be significant (end of
> > statement) generally unless the line ends with a binary operator.
>
> Basically whenever Ruby knows that it's in the middle of something (an
> expression, a parameter list, etc, or immediately following a
> backslash, newlines are ignored. Otherwise they terminate the
> statement.

I *knew* I was being too barebones :-)


David

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