On 4/24/06, Robby Russell <robby.lists / planetargon.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 24, 2006, at 1:35 AM, Dave Burt wrote:
>
> > Ross Bamford wrote:
> >> I don't think (or I hope not, anyway) that ruby will require
> >> parens on
> >> all method calls, only where method calls are made involving other
> >> method calls as arguments.
> >
> > That's right. Ruby will certainly never have parens on all method
> > calls
> > (Matz has said this repeatedly) but the warning is for the obvious
> > syntactic ambiguities.
> >
> > I hope this addresses part of OP's concerns.
> >
>
> So, nothing will be *required* butt it may still generate a warning?
>
> -Robby
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My understanding from reading this list is that at some point
_ambiguous_ expressions may require parenthesis. However, there is no
intention to disallow simple function calls/dsl syntax.

pth