Would you mind opening an issue about it?
https://github.com/JuliaLang/issues/new
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Klaus-Dieter Bauer <
bauer.klaus.die...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed that the "do" keyword behaves weirdly when trying to use it on a
> single line, e.g. in the REPL:
>
> When the "do" keyword is used to create a function with one or more
> arguments everything works fine.
> julia> map([1,2,3]) do x 1+x end
> map([1,2,3]) do x 1+x end
> 3-element Array{Int64,1}:
> 2
> 3
> 4
>
> Without arguments, multi-line usage works fine ...
> julia> cd("c:/tmp") do
> cd("c:/tmp") do
>
> println(1)
> end
> 1
>
> ... but single line usage fails ...
> julia> cd("c:/tmp") do println(1) end
> cd("c:/tmp") do println(1) end
> ERROR: syntax: malformed function arguments (call println 1)
>
> ... and a ; cannot be used to fix it:
> julia> cd("c:/tmp") do; println(1) end
> cd("c:/tmp") do; println(1) end
> ERROR: syntax: unexpected ;
>
> Is this an actual inconsistency in the parsing or am I getting something
> wrong about how julia handles single-line code? So far it is the first
> example where I found a line-break to be both significant and not
> replaceable by a semi-colon.
>
> I am using the julia-0.2.1-win64 binary release.
>
