ts <decoux / moulon.inra.fr> wrote:
> vg% ruby -vce 'print (a + b)'
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i686-linux]
> -e:1: warning: (...) interpreted as grouped expression
> Syntax OK
> svg% 
> 
> svg% ruby -vce 'a { print (a + b) }'
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i686-linux]
> -e:1: warning: don't put space before argument parentheses
> Syntax OK
> svg% 

Wow - wasn't aware of that. What's the difference due to?

>  What is the next step ?
> 
>  ruby will use a random generator to know if it must give the warning
> 
>      "warning: (...) interpreted as grouped expression"
> 
>  or
> 
>      "warning: don't put space before argument parentheses"

But will it be a reentrant random number generator? (:

martin