From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-12-17T01:41:42+09:00
Subject: Re: End matching

On Dec 16, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Paul Battley wrote:

>> So I'm going to write an end matching program. Could somebody please
>> list all the keywords that are ended by "end"? Do any of these
>> keywords ever not end in "end"?
>
> One wrinkle: 'do' does not always end in 'end'.  It can be a method,
> and is used as such in DBI (e.g. 'dbh.do(...)').  It should be easy
> enough to handle that case by checking for a preceding period,
> however.

I imagine all the words in that list have the same issue.

Checking for the period is a good start, but watch out for edge cases:

   send(:do, *args)

James Edward Gray II