From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby@...>
Date: 2004-10-07T03:34:15+09:00
Subject: Re: quality of error messages

Joachim Wuttke wrote:
> Hi Ruby developers,
> 
>    after spending some time with Perl and Python, I am
> currently exploring Ruby. While I am quite enthusiastic
> about some of its features, I am increasingly preocuppied
> about the difficulties to localize errors.
> 
>    Example 1: missing "end" in <last-line-of-code>
> -> I forget to close a "class" or a "do" or a "if" block -
> but which one ? Shouldn't the system be able to name
> possible locations of unclosed block openings ?

I highly recommend using an editor like xemacs that has proper automatic 
indentation. Normally I see at which level I am, and if somethings going 
wrong I just reindent the whole file and can see where somethings not 
properly aligned.

Regards,

Brian
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Brian Schr�der
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