From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-07-17T23:10:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug? String literal %s{#{a}} cause irb to abort

Hi,

At Sat, 17 Jul 2004 22:40:34 +0900,
Alexey Verkhovsky wrote in [ruby-talk:106711]:
> // Another odd behavior
> irb(main):002:0> a = %s
> irb(main):003:0:                   
> // expected: SyntaxError
> // actual: an "empty symbol" value is assigned to a

It is actually same as:

 $ ruby -e '%s' -e ''
 -e:2: empty symbol literal

i.e., a symbol litral terminated by \n.

> irb(main):004:0> a
> SyntaxError: compile error

But I don't know why it delays until the next line; this would
be an irb issue.

-- 
Nobu Nakada