From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-02-18T20:04:51+09:00
Subject: Re: What to do when adding a comment makes your program behave differently???


"Erik Terpstra" <erik@terpnet.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:4215cb12$0$28982$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
> Hi,
>
> I a have built a program (433 lines) which takes a file as an argument,
> processes it and provides its result to STDOUT.
>
> When I add a comment (just a '#' character will do) below the last line
> of the program, it works fine.
>
> When I remove the comment it behaves differently, the result is
> incorrect but Ruby does not give an error or a warning whatsoever. (I
> don't have any rescue statements in my program).
>
> What can I do right now? (Except for switching to another language ;-)
>
> TIA,
>
> Erik.
>
> P.S.: I am willing to send my code, but I expect it will work fine
> elsewhere because it is probably a GC/timing related Ruby bug.

With that little information nobody really can help you with this.  Please
post code (if it's larger, you might want to use a public pasting board
such as http://rafb.net/paste/ ) and probably your input file.

Kind regards

    robert