From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-04-18T01:44:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Cryptic -w warning: ambiguous first argument; make sure ...

On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> 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.

the trend seems to be the poetry mode is evil, and being phased out.  is that
fair to say?

i for one, love writing

open path, 'r'

vs

open(path, 'r')


and even then would prefer

open (path, 'r')

in case of extreme nesting - for clarity

but i appear to be in the minority ;-)


-a

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