From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-04-18T01:16:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Cryptic -w warning: ambiguous first argument; make sure ...

Hi,

In message "Cryptic -w warning: ambiguous first argument; make sure ..."
    on 03/04/18, Johan Holmberg <holmberg@iar.se> writes:

|I wrote something like
|
|    str = "banana"
|    str.gsub! /a/, "*"
|    puts str
|
|When running this this with the -w option I get the following
|warning:
|
|    ex1.rb:4: warning: ambiguous first argument; make sure

make sure whether what you wrote is either

  * regexp as the first argument
  * division "str.gsub! / a"

wrap arguments with parentheses, if you don't want to see the
warning.

							matz.