From: Caleb Clausen <caleb@...>
Date: 2009-07-21T23:40:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:24478] Re: [Bug #1801] parse error on variable/method collision

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> |In other words, the /a should be inside the arg list to ep(), however, it actually gets put outside.
> 
> It's intentional.  We cannot always fulfill everyone's expectation
> from various background.  When you claim "should" in your bug report,
> you have to include your rationale more than mere expectation in the
> report.

When I showed this to you at rubyconf, you confirmed that it was a bug. 
That's why I was so certain in my wording. I did include a list of the 
parse rules which would seem to apply in this case, as far as I 
understand them and how this example violates those rules.

> |Rubinius has an even more severe version of the problem. It outputs 50, which indicates that it not only misparses, it also evaluates the expression 'ep (a)' as a local variable, completely ignoring the arg list!
> 
> It seems to be a bug in Rubinius.  You should report to its maintainers.

I realize this isn't the rubinius list, I was just trying to illustrate 
how widespread this behavior is.