Problems rdoc'ing cvs...

I have just done
cvs update -d
both for rdoc and for my ruby cvs directory.   Running rdoc on the
results gave:
        [...]
                    beginmainend.rb:
              test_beginendblock.rb: c....
                  test_trackback.rb: c....
                test_syndication.rb: c.c

RDoc failure in test/rss/test_syndication.rb at or around line 22 column 37

Before reporting this, could you check that the file
you're documenting compiles cleanly--RDoc is not a
full Ruby parser, and gets confused easily if fed
invalid programs.

The internal error was:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:2287:in `get_symbol_or_name': Name or symbol expected (got #<RubyToken::TkLPAREN:0x1c9ca00>) (RuntimeError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:2293:in `parse_alias'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:1679:in `parse_statements'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:1753:in `parse_class'
brains hgs 63 %>

The file looks like:
brains hgs 72 %> cat -n  test/rss/test_syndication.rb | body 30 36
    30
    31                  @sy_nodes = @elems.collect do |name, value|
    32                          "<#{@prefix}:#{name}>#{CGI.escapeHTML(value.to_s)}</#{@prefix}:#{name}>"
    33                  end.join("\n")
    34
    35                  @rss_source = make_RDF(<<-EOR, {@prefix =>  @uri})
    36  #{make_channel(@sy_nodes)}
brains hgs 73 %>

I then get an error at line 22, then 70.  These seemed to relate to
alias_method(:this,:that).  Removing the brackets helped.  I did
this for test_dublincore.rb also and it was happier.  I don't know
if this is something that should be changed in rdoc, or if it is
actually preferred to avoid the brackets (as this has not shown up
in the other files), but my patch, for what it is worth, is below.

Something seems to have happened to the spacing where I changed end
to }.

        Hugh

--- ./ruby/test/rss/test_syndication.rb.orig	2004-02-26 13:42:34.958102000 +0000
+++ ./ruby/test/rss/test_syndication.rb	2004-03-11 16:27:18.859748000 +0000
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@

 		t = Time.iso8601("2000-01-01T12:00:05+00:00")
 		class << t
-			alias_method(:to_s, :iso8601)
+			alias_method :to_s, :iso8601
 		end

 		@elems = {
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@
 			:updateBase => t,
 		}

-		@sy_nodes = @elems.collect do |name, value|
+		@sy_nodes = @elems.collect { |name, value|
 			"<#{@prefix}:#{name}>#{CGI.escapeHTML(value.to_s)}</#{@prefix}:#{name}>"
-		end.join("\n")
+    }.join("\n")

 		@rss_source = make_RDF(<<-EOR, {@prefix =>  @uri})
 #{make_channel(@sy_nodes)}
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@

 		t = Time.iso8601("2003-01-01T12:00:23+09:00")
 		class << t
-			alias_method(:to_s, :iso8601)
+			alias_method :to_s, :iso8601
 		end

 		new_value = {
--- ./ruby/test/rss/test_dublincore.rb.orig	2004-02-26 13:42:34.854453000 +0000
+++ ./ruby/test/rss/test_dublincore.rb	2004-03-11 16:31:51.302868000 +0000
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@

 		t = Time.iso8601("2000-01-01T12:00:05+00:00")
 		class << t
-			alias_method(:to_s, :iso8601)
+			alias_method :to_s, :iso8601
 		end

 		@elems = {
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 				if name == :date
 					t = Time.iso8601("2003-01-01T02:30:23+09:00")
 					class << t
-						alias_method(:to_s, :iso8601)
+						alias_method :to_s, :iso8601
 					end
 					@rss.send(parent).send("dc_#{name}=", t.iso8601)
 					assert_equal(t, @rss.send(parent).send("dc_#{name}"))