From: Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T21:18:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Wild ideas: Finding a missing 'end'


unknown wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, N Okia wrote:
> 
>>   x = 3*i
>> Using indentation is dangerous, because indentation doesn't mean
>> anything in ruby normally, and trying to figure out the right thing
>> would mean that we start having to be careful with indentation levels,
>> and code works in strange ways because we don't know ruby is 'helping'
>> us out. It can make for very hard to find bugs.
> 
> But surely just a warning can't be harmful, even if it mentions what
> turns out to be the wrong line -- ?
> 
> 
> David



I agree as far as giving the coder the exact error line in a better way
than currently, yes. That would help more than scanning the code for the 
missing end. :-)

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