From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-08-10T02:06:45+09:00
Subject: Re: nil || //

>>>>> "P" == Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:

P> [pbrannan@zaphod scripts]$ ruby -v -e 'p nil || //'

pigeon% /usr/bin/ruby -riis -ve 'puts dump; p nil || //'
ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i686-linux]
puts(dump)
p(((nil ) || (//i)))
nil
pigeon% 

 // interpreted as a regexp

P> [pbrannan@zaphod scripts]$ ruby-1.7 -v -e 'p nil || //'


pigeon% ./ruby -rii -ve 'dump; p nil || //'
ruby 1.7.2 (2002-08-06) [i686-linux]
eval_tree
BLOCK
  NEWLINE <-e:1>
  VCALL dump 
  NEWLINE <-e:1>
  FCALL p 
    ARRAY
      OR
        NIL
        LIT //

//
pigeon%

  // interpreted as litteral


Guy Decoux

p.s.: iis must have a bug (it has inserted /i), this is really *bad* :-)