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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
Subject: Re: parentheses and newlines
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:33:04 +0100
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On 02/17/2012 03:01 PM, jsnark wrote:
> 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>'

irb(main):001:0> (2;3)
=> 3

Line terminator is more than just whitespace.

Kind regards

	robert