[ruby-core:26001] Re: turning off indentation warnings

On Oct 6, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Roger Pack wrote:

>>>>> I've looked into adding a global variable. I think it looks  
>>>>> better,
>>>>> but it requires modifying the parser to evaluate SOME  
>>>>> expressions at
>>>>> parse time and I think that is a can of worms we don't want to  
>>>>> open.
>>>>
>>>> I agree it's a worst idea.
>
> One idea might be, if you don't want formatting warnings, to
> "pre-format" code before you require it.
> (ruby prettifier or ruby2ruby(ruby_parser) it).

No.  Then line number information is lost when the code is generated.   
Think of the fun you would have tracking down exceptions when the line  
numbers are meaningless.

> Or perhaps redirect:
> $alias ruby=ruby_wrapper_script_which_swallows_indentation_warnings

This doesn't make sense.  If I distribute the generated code (which I  
always do), should I expect my users to do this?

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Aaron Patterson
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