From: Steve Coltrin <spcoltri@...>
Date: 2001-01-28T09:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9997] Re: line continuation

harryo@zipworld.com.au (Harry Ohlsen) writes:

> While it's nice that you can do this, can someone explain why it is
> that the Ruby parser can't work out that a statement is not finished,
> as, say, a C++ or Java parser can?

Because C++ and Java statements are terminated with a ; .

-spc