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What's the point in skipping whitespace around Ruby's exponent operator?

I'm just wondering what are the reasons for excluding whitespace around Ruby's expansion operator. The community-based Ruby Coding Style Guide says that operators other than the exponent ( **

) operator should use spaces, i.e.

# bad
e = M * c ** 2

# good
e = M * c**2

I was unable to find any information on this matter.

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Perhaps to reflect a handwritten way of expressing that the exponent operator has high precedence over the member associated with:

Written:

  • M xc 2


code:

  • M * c**2

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