From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-04-11T17:10:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG] "illegal radix 1"

Hi,

In message "Re: [BUG] "illegal radix 1""
    on 03/04/11, Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@math.umd.edu> writes:

|Yes, I figured it was something like that.  But don't you think that Ruby 
|should be able to figure that out?

Actually, Ruby tried to figure out what you meant (by looking
whitespace), but I guess yours were different.

How do you think Ruby should figure out, when both

  a.foo * 1.1 => a.foo()*1.1
  a.foo *1.1  => a.foo(*1.1)

are legal?

All I can say now is "use whitespace consistently (or symmetrically)",
until someone come up with better idea.

							matz.