Bug #12056: kwarg is not allowed after `return`

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

Cited from http://aylog.tumblr.com/post/138772421042/return

$ ruby -e 'return foo: :bar'
-e:1: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting end-of-input
return foo: :bar
           ^

Seems a bug.

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/compare/trunk...nobu:bug/return-kwargs

[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

cf https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/1rj7ODOCSfcsQeBd6-p-NiVwqxDUg05G66LwDOkKOGTw/pub

Matz is negative to this.

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected