Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> On 2/4/13 2:10 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
>> deadalnix wrote:
>>> 1/ Ruby.
>>>
>>> In Ruby, method are called without (). This is not ambiguous as
>>> fields are always private.
>>>
>>      Note that in Ruby, this line:
>>
>> foo(1, 2)
>>
>>      Means something different than:
>>
>> foo (1, 2)
>>
>>      That may not be ambiguous for the computer, but it sure is for the
>> programmer....
>>
> irb(main):001:0> foo (1, 2)
> SyntaxError: (irb):1: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ')'
> foo (1, 2)
>         ^
> 
> Not ambiguous at all, it's a syntax error because (a, b) is not a valid 
> expression.
> 
        Like I said, it is not ambiguous for the computer, but it is for
the developper.

                Jerome
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