From: Archit Baweja <bighead@...>
Date: 2004-02-26T05:38:31+09:00
Subject: Re: print with no arguments?

Hey

Oliver Cromm <c1205@er.uqam.ca> writes:

> "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@fattire.ngdc.noaa.gov> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Oliver Cromm wrote:
> > 
> >> I feel that the Ruby interpreter is poking fun at me with this
> >> error: 
> >> 
> >>   findcols.rb:84:in `print': wrong number of arguments(1 for 0) 
> >> (ArgumentError)
> >> 
> > perhaps you have another 'def print...' in scope somewhere which
> > does NOT take an argument?
> 
> Indeed, that's it. So I was poking fun at me myself. I'll quickly 
> change the name of that "print" function!

even though you found an error it wouldn't hurt if you put it like so

print("*") if ...

so that the precedence is clear. The interpreter could have seen it as

print ("*" if ...)

which would be runtime problem.

Cheers!
Archit

> 
> Thanks!
> -- 
> Oliver Cromm