----- Original Message -----
From: "ahoward" <ahoward / fsl.noaa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: src/yaml.y.rb:210: warning: ambiguous first argument; make sure


> now, i personally like to know these sorts of things - they do make a
language
> more interesting and even more fun to write/read.  obfusication is not
*all*
> bad - maybe the guy who prefers perl is onto something... ;-)

:) Funny you mention obfuscation -- I once tried
to do some sneaky stuff where depending on a flag
or something, a here-doc was treated either as a
here-doc or as code. Now that's obfuscation of a
sort!

But I never got it to work. I think the Ruby parser
was too smart for that, and this was an occasion
where there was some distinction between "compile
time" and "runtime."

Hal