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Re: parentheses and newlines

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* jsnark <swr@monmouth.com> (2012-02-17) schrieb:

>Can anyone explain the following behavior?  I would expect both
>expressions to fail, but the first unexpectedly succeeds.
>
>$ irb --version
>irb 0.9.6(09/06/30)
>$ ruby --version
>ruby 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-25) [x86_64-linux]
>$ irb
>irb(main):001:0> (2
>irb(main):002:1> 3)
>=> 3
>irb(main):003:0> (2 3)
>SyntaxError: (irb):3: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER, expecting ')'
>(2 3)
>    ^
>        from /usr/local/ruby-1.9.2/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'

Same behaviour in ruby with eval. So no irb problem.

mfg,                simon .... l

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