Bug #5442: heredoc inside Hash initialization

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553)

[jhej (Jonatan Hejzlar)]

Shouldn't this initialization be valid?

Hash[:a,<<-EOS
some text
EOS
,:b,'other']

gives the following error
syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ']'

[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

That's identical to

Hash[:a, "some text\n"
,:b,'other']

and produces a same error. So it is consistent. Place the comma beforehand. i.e.

Hash[:a, <<-EOS, :b, 'other']
some text
EOS

[jhej (Jonatan Hejzlar)]

I see, thanks