From: Joachim Wuttke <Joachim_Wuttke@...>
Date: 2004-10-07T07:19:19+09:00
Subject: Re: quality of error messages

Thank you, Brian.
This is quite a convincing example: I count not less than eight
places where the "end" could be missing.
Just for curiosity: why didn't Ruby borrow indentation semantics
from Python ?
Regards, Joachim

> Consider:
> 
> The error is obvious to you, right? But because identation is not signficant
> in Ruby, the parser will read it as:
> 
> class A
>   def m1
>   end
# "end" could be missing here
>   def m2
>   end
# "end" could be missing here
>   def m3(x)
>     if x == 3
>       puts "hello"
# "end" could be missing here
>     end
# "end" could be missing here
>   end
# "end" could be missing here
>   class B    # nested class definition (A::B)
>     def m1
>     end
# "end" could be missing here
>     def m2
>     end
# "end" could be missing here
>   end
> # missing 'end' error reported here