From ruby-talk  Thu Apr 15 13:26:51 2004
From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery () wanadoo ! fr>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:26:51 +0000
To: ruby-talk
Subject: Re: include? needs parentheses?
Message-Id: <407E8E12.7060200 () wanadoo ! fr>
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Hello,

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

>Hi,
>
>At Thu, 15 Apr 2004 02:34:49 +0900,
>Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote in [ruby-talk:97164]:
>  
>
>>|> I can only guess: maybe it's because the line "puts([1,2,3].include? 1,2)"
>>|> would be amiguous?
>>|
>>|You're correct, and Gavin may be also.
>>
>>The basic rule was "when you use return values from method calls, use
>>parentheses".  So I believe I didn't make mistake for this case.  But
>>your expectation might be worth consideration.
>>    
>>
>
>Understood.  Then, the messages shouldn't be so?
>  
>
yes, that'd help the messages to be much less "try and fix" if people 
understand them less intuitively and more objectively.

emmanuel