Bug #11470: extra parens required for if/unless/rescue modifier expressions in single arg method invocations

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN

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foo(1 if true) is not allowed requiring foo((1 if true))

also foo(1 unless true) foo(bar rescue 1)

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

It's a spec.

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Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

It's a spec.

What code would break if foo(1 if true) were valid?

None I would think so why not have it work, there is no ambiguity?