From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2005-12-08T01:11:50+09:00
Subject: Re: small question about ruby -c

On 12/7/05, pat eyler <pat.eyler@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 can't see your code, but my guess is that the ruby interpreter
figured that otherwise is a function (not an accidental name for
else), so it is good syntax, even though there is a runtime error for
the missing method/variable name.

pth