From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2004-10-08T12:45:11+09:00
Subject: Re: quality of error messages

Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org] wrote:

> |> % ./script.rb
> |> script.rb:6: warning: inconsistent indentation level.
> |> script.rb:13: parse error
> |> 
> |> This should make it easy to find such errors.
> 
> |That seems like a nice idea to me. This would be nearly the 
> same as the
> |autoindenter so, only that it does not indent but spit out warnings.
> 
> I'm afraid that it might cause tab-space indentation war like 
> in the Python community.  The issue is much smaller though, 
> since it is not mandatory.

can we extend -c (check syntax) command so that it also checks for
missing/broken def/end pairs? Right now ruby -c gives only a syntax error
message wc is not so helpful (especially for python newcomers).

> 
> 							matz.

kind regards -botp