From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-09-27T23:02:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Where Is Method Call Precedence?

Hi,

This is actually rather confusing to me, since in Ruby the '()' is
optional in a method call.  In all other languages that I have used, the
'()' is almost always mandatory (I never used Eiffel).

My question is, what is the reason of not to put some space before the
opening '(' in a method call?  I personally have not encountered a
pathological case where the space does create a problem.

Regards,

Bill
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Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,

> Usually these are not handled by precedence order.  They are just
> different rules in the syntax (parhaps except for dot).  The dot is
> the strongest "operator".

> 							matz.