From: mental@...
Date: 2005-12-08T02:51:42+09:00
Subject: Re: small question about ruby -c

Quoting pat eyler <pat.eyler@gmail.com>:

> 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?

Basically, it's not a syntax error.  It's possible for a script to
be wrong in surprising ways but still syntactically valid.

-mental