From: "Stephan Kämper" <Stephan.Kaemper@...>
Date: 2004-09-18T03:29:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Weird crash in Windows Ruby (installer, 1.8.2rc7a)

Chris Sheppard wrote:
> 
>        until result =~ /#{PROMPT}$/
> 

What's the value of PROMPT? What's the initial value of result?
What's the smallest piece of code that shows this behavior?

> What's up with that?  I've overwritten the main versions of the

If it just blows off, you might think about the value (or string 
representation) of PROMPT. If there are some regex specific characters 
in it it may either just not work or run into a very long session of 
backtracking to find a regex match.

Happy rubying

Stephan