From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2002-09-28T03:43:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Programming Ruby p103 (Pragmatic Programmer)

Dale Martenson wrote:
> puts (1..4).sum
> 
> This seems to work with Ruby version 1.7.2 (Windows),

But should give warning with -w, IIRC:
   warning: (...) interpreted as grouped expression

> but not with version
> 1.6.7 (Cygwin).

Old parsing of the above code is as: 
  (puts (1..4)).sum

Either way, puts (anything).anything_else is a bad idea in general. 
Put the parenthesis in explicity.

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