From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2005-12-08T01:14:10+09:00
Subject: Re: small question about ruby -c

pat eyler schrieb:
> 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?

Pat, this isn't a syntax error. The *syntax* is correct. Just define a 
method or local variable named "otherwise" and all is fine.

Regards,
Pit