From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Date: 2003-10-04T00:11:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Absolute class name?

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:06:47AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> irb doesn't support this syntax yet.

Oh, so I see.  Thanks!  

But now I'm curious - why does irb have a different parser from regular ruby?  
That seems likely to cause all sorts of such incompatibilities, since
you have to maintain similar code in two places . . .

-Mark