From: Joe Van Dyk <joe.vandyk@...>
Date: 2004-12-16T08:52:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG] unknown node type 0 - SERIOUS ENOUGH TO MIGRATE AWAY FROM RUBY?

Tim Sutherland wrote:
> In article <200412151409.53542.andrew@walrond.org>,
> Andrew Walrond wrote: [...]
>> I'm not having a go at anybody; I merely wanted to
>> emphasize that 330+ bug reports have been ignored
>> because, as I explained, it's impossible to
> [...]
>
> They weren't ignored. The '[BUG] unknown node type 0'
> error is the common symptom of any bug in the Ruby
> interpreter that "screws things up" in a certain way.
>
> i.e. it's just a symptom of the real problem which is
> "somebody corrupted things sometime earlier".
>
> Many of the bugs that could cause the error have been
> fixed.
>
> I suspect that the usual way they are found and fixed is
> that someone thinks hard about the (Ruby interpreter)
> code and sees a potential problem.
>
> This is why whenever there is a report "I got a [BUG
> unknown node type 0", the answer is usually "try the
> latest stable snapshot". It means that a bug was fixed
> recently that could result in that error and perhaps that
> was the bug the person was seeing.

What I don't get is how entering white space or newlines can cause or fix
the problem.  That's just weird.