From: Brian Candler <lists@...>
Date: 2012-07-07T06:54:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Confusing results from string multiplication

Eric Christopherson wrote in post #1035785:
> Wherever you heard whitespace doesn't matter, forget it; it's not true.

Absolutely right - whitespace is *very* significant in ruby. Here's 
another corker:

puts (-3).abs   # 3
puts(-3).abs    # NoMethodError: undefined method `abs' for nil:NilClass

This is the price you pay for perl's "poetry mode", that is, being able 
to call methods without parentheses around arguments.

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