From: Eero Saynatkari <ruby-forum-reg@...>
Date: 2006-02-01T05:04:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginner question on classes on different files

Edgard Riba wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> I'm using FreeRuby, and I'm getting intermitent errors.
> 
> This is the error I get
>>ruby c:/ruby/samples/hello.rb
> c:/ruby/samples/hello.rb:11: parse error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, 
> expecting $
> h2 = Hello2.new()^Mputs h2.msg^M
>             ^

This looks like UNIX-style linebreaks (\n)
that Windows does not interpret correctly.

> However, I placed semi-colons (';') after each line and everything 
> compiled fine and ran with expected results:
> 
> h  = Hello.new();
> h2 = Hello2.new();
> 
> puts h2.msg;
> puts h.msg;
> print "Press RETURN";
> $stdin.gets;
> 
> 
> Seems like some kind of problem with the parser.   Maybe I have 
> something setup wrong with respect to the end of line character or 
> something like that...

There may be a setting in your editor that toggles
the linebreak mode. I actually do not recall this
having been a problem but it has been a while since
I did any ruby development on Windows.

> Thanks,
> Edgard


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