From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-06-13T00:14:28+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 17252-17356

On 2002.06.13, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: ruby-dev summary 17252-17356"
>     on 02/06/12, Dossy <dossy@panoptic.com> writes:
> 
> |Or, how about:
> |
> |5.times do(a) a=gets; print a end
> |
> |To me, that's the least surprise.  It makes "a" look like a
> |defined parameter of the do "method" so to speak.
> 
> Unfortunately, yacc doesn't like this rule.  It causes conflicts.

What if we could do this:

5.times.do(a) a=gets; print a end
       ^?

Or can you not name methods that shadow keywords?

-- Dossy

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