From: gwtmp01@...
Date: 2006-04-06T23:30:13+09:00
Subject: Re: statistics module problem


On Apr 6, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Craig Kim wrote:
>
> So I replaced the line that reads "@stat_block ||  
> type.default_block" with
> "@stat_block || class.default_block" and ran the same script and  
> now I get
> the following error message:

The problem is unique to the method 'class' because the parser  
confuses the method
call with the use of 'class' as a keyword to start a class/end  
block.  The solution
is to disambiguate the case with an explicit call to self:

	type.default_block 		#deprecated
  	class.default_block		#syntax error, parser gets confused
	self.class.default_block	# all is well

Personally I wish the parser was smarter (but maybe it is a grammar  
problem?) or that
the method wasn't called 'class' to avoid the ambiguity.  For some  
reason I just don't
like the extraneous 'self'.


Gary Wright