From: pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>
Date: 2005-12-08T01:04:33+09:00
Subject: small question about ruby -c

interesting little bug (I think)

When generating the answer to a previous email, I ran ruby -c against
a script and got 'syntax ok'.   (as expected)   I then changed an
if/else/end to if/otherwise/end, ran ruby -c again, and got 'syntax
ok'.  (not as expected).   I went ahead and ran the script (with the
'otherwise' change) and got:

-- primes_with_error.rb:29: undefined local variable or method
`otherwise' for main:Object (NameError)
        from primes_with_error.rb:25:in `each'
        from primes_with_error.rb:25


Any reason that ruby -c didn't catch this?


thanks,
-pate
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