From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-04-12T02:21:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG] "illegal radix 1"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 3:10 AM
Subject: Re: [BUG] "illegal radix 1"


> 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.

I guess that is reasonable, but why
does the error say 1 instead of 1.1?

Hal