From: Meinrad Recheis <meinrad.recheis@...>
Date: 2003-03-25T04:39:45+09:00
Subject: Re: [puts] - bug or feature?

i see.
one of the few cons of the cool ruby syntax.

Kent: wow i can t imagine a more mathematical notation (of the parsing 
process) as yours ;)

- Meinrad

Kent Dahl wrote:
> Meinrad Recheis wrote:
> 
>>puts (3).to_s + 'b'
>>3
>>=> "b"
> 
> 
> It appear to be parsed as
> 
>     ((puts (3)).to_s) + 'b'
> ==  (     (nil).to_s) + 'b'
> ==  (             "") + 'b'
> ==  "" + 'b'
> == 'b' 
> 
> Makes perfect sense :-)
> 
> Be careful with space between method name and parenthesis for
> argumentnames. When in doubt, use parenthesis for method calls.
>