From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-12-10T15:20:00+09:00
Subject: Re: warnings -w

Hi,

In message "Re: warnings -w"
    on 02/12/10, Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@math.umd.edu> writes:

|dcarrera ~ $ ruby -we 'p (1)'
|-e:1: warning: p (...) interpreted as method call
|1
|
|What does that error mean?  What's wrong with 'p (1)'.  I realize that
|it's the space before the bracket that causes the error.  But I don't
|understand what's wrong with the space.

Think about "p (1+2)*3".  It's "(p(1+2))*3", not "p((1+2)*3)",
1.7 has different parentheses priority though.

							matz.