From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2006-02-14T09:13:25+09:00
Subject: Syntax error messages in 1.8.3

Hi gurus and nubys,

I wonder if this is related to the 1.8.4 one-click installer (preview) 
or a general change in ruby: I'm getting really weird error messages for 
syntax errors, it seem that ruby spits out some non-formatted names from 
the parser code whe it encounters a syntax error.

Some examples:

---
def
t.rb:1: parse error, unexpected $
---
p() p
t.rb:1: parse error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting $
---
p(/)
t.rb:1: unterminated string meets end of file
t.rb:1: parse error, unexpected tSTRING_END, expecting tSTRING_CONTENT 
or tREGEXP_END or tSTRING_DBEG or tSTRING_DVAR
  p(/)
       ^
---
p(
t.rb:1: parse error, unexpected $, expecting ')'

Ok, the errors are obvious and I understand what messages mean.. but I 
don't remember they were like this in the past.
Could someone confirm if (s)he's getting this and if it is ok?