From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2004-04-08T06:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 2.0 and "warning: don't put space before argument parentheses"

Hi,

From: "Its Me" <itsme213@hotmail.com>
> > >     x.foo ( arg )
> > As I recall, the warning was added in 1.8 because that sort of style was
> being
> > deprecated.
> 
> I hope that's not the case. I'd rather be told it is a limitation in the
> current parser or some such.
> 
> It's hard to argue that
>     x.foo( y.bar( z.baz )))
> makes better reading breaks for the eye than
>     x.foo ( y.bar ( z.baz )))
> 
> The different is even more glaring if you remove the spaces after the "("
>     x.foo(y.bar(z.baz )))
> Vs.
>     x.foo (y.bar (z.baz )))
> 
> Anyone know for sure? Matz?

I recall Matz having addressed this in a couple threads, but,
this is all I've been able to find so far:
http://ruby-talk.org/84104



Regards,

Bill