From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2012-03-01T16:12:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubymoticons

> 
> Adam Prescott wrote:
>> Maybe I'm missing something, but:
>> 
>> 
>> $ ruby -ve 'puts :-
>> .class'
>> ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18 revision 30909) [i686-linux]
>> Symbol
> 
> So Ruby and IRB are consistent in this respect. But I would still
> expect Ruby *not* to wait for the next line when it encounters a
> symbol like :- at the end of a line.
> 

This is not a bug. Ruby 1.9 can chain methods like this:

"foo \n"
  .chomp
  .reverse

So, it works with any expression, also with symbols.

Regards,
Florian