On Apr 20, 2008, at 13:25 PM, Alex Shulgin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Anyone aware of this bug?
>
> $ cat expr-bug.rb
> a = (2
>  + 2) / 2
> p a
>
> a = (2 \
>  + 2) / 2
> p a
> $ ruby expr-bug.rb
> 1
> 2
> $ ruby --version
> ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [x86_64-linux]

This is not a bug.  Newlines are significant in ruby.