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Created December 29, 2010 05:51
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$ ruby-1.8.7-p302 method_chain.rb
method_chain.rb:2: syntax error, unexpected '.', expecting $end
.gsub(/f/, "")
^
$ ruby-1.9.2-p0 method_chain.rb
OO
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puts "foo".gsub(/o/, "O")
.gsub(/f/, "")
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I noticed this as well. The way I was able to make this work regardless of the ruby version is to do the following:

puts "foo".gsub(/o/, 'O').
           gsub(/f/, '')

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msassak commented Dec 29, 2010

I've used the older syntax before, but I hadn't seen anything about the new one. It always bothered me that I had to end the previous line with the dot rather than begin the new one, so I'm happy for the change.

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I agree, leaving the dot at the end of the previous line feels awkward especially since I'm used to being able to continue the chain on the next line from javascript development. I'm glad to see the new syntax supported in Ruby 1.9.

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