From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-10-12T05:08:33+09:00
Subject: Re: why does `a + f b` not parse?

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Phillip Gawlowski
<cmdjackryan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/10/11 Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex@gmail.com>:
>>
>> All but one of these (which you actually repeated twice) are invalid
>> syntax.
>
> ?
>
> That would mean that something like Class.instance_methods(:true).sort
> wouldn't work. We can chain as many methods as is possible, if we
> like.

Yes, but spaces do not become dots except those before an operator.
Those forms in your list are not valid transformations of the input.
When considering how to group with brackets it only makes sense to
consider variants which could be created from the original.

Kind regards

robert

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