From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-10-04T00:45:22+09:00
Subject: HighLine Issue (was Re: Lisp Game (#49))

On Oct 2, 2005, at 7:36 PM, Markus Koenig wrote:

> Gregory Brown wrote:
>
>
>> Markus Koenig wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The user interface is the same as the Lisp program's, but  
>>> omitting the
>>> parens. BTW, why does Highline lose when EOF is encountered? I  
>>> really
>>> miss the Ctrl-D...
>>>
>>
>> Hmm... not exactly sure why this doesn't work.  I'll try to dig  
>> through
>> HighLine and figure this out if I get some time this week, if James
>> doesn't beat me to the punch, that is :)
>>
>
> This is what I get from HighLine 1.0.1:
>
>     [...]
>     /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/highline/question.rb:362:in `send':
>     undefined method `strip' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/highline/question.rb: 
> 362:in `remove_whitespace'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/highline.rb:527:in `get_line'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/highline.rb:545:in  
> `get_response'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/highline.rb:155:in `ask'
>         from lispgame.rb:221
>         from lispgame.rb:219:in `loop'
>         from lispgame.rb:219
>
> In question.rb:362 the result of readline (highline.rb:528) or gets
> (highline.rb:533) is stripped. I guess the cleanest thing to do is  
> just
> to raise EOFError if any of these methods returns nil.

Hello Markus.

I'm very interested in understanding this problem and fixing it  
correctly.  Could you please show a trivial HighLine script and how  
you are trying to use it, so I can wrap my head around this?

Thanks.

James Edward Gray II