From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-01-18T08:37:49+09:00
Subject: Re: long expression syntax

messju mohr wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 08:10:01AM +0900, Rick Hu wrote:
>  
>
>>why do I get a syntax error for
>>
>>    puts 1 if ( 1 == 2
>>        or 1 == 1 )
>>
>>but there is no syntax error for
>>
>>    puts 1 if ( 1 == 2 or
>>        1 == 1 )
>>    
>>
>
>i don't get one with the ruby-1.8.1 that's distributed in debian's
>sid.
>  
>

I do, with Ruby 1.8.1.  But the reason (as far as I've been able to 
ascertain) is that Ruby's grammar does not allow newlines before operators.

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Jamis Buck
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ruby -h | ruby -e 'a=[];readlines.join.scan(/-(.)\[e|Kk(\S*)|le.l(..)e|#!(\S*)/) {|r| a << r.compact.first };puts "\n>#{a.join(%q/ /)}<\n\n"'