From: Phillip Hutchings <sitharus@...>
Date: 2006-08-18T15:18:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax checker wtf?

On 8/18/06, Firstname Surname <rubyforum@wendlink.com> wrote:
> I'm new to Ruby and RoR; I was messing around with it today and had
> trouble with error codes. Specifically, the ruby syntax checker
> frequently spits out 'syntax error' with the last line of the code as
> the error line (the error is nowhere near the last line).  This happens
> with missing chars, extra ., all sorts of minor syntax errors, not just
> missing 'end's. I found myself copy and pasting functions, checking,
> then pasting again to find the error, which is pretty ridiculous.
>
> This is something I'd expect in a pre 1.0 compiler, but ruby is at
> 1.8.4; is the
> ruby syntax checker just really primitive?
> This isn't very user friendly, especially for a newbie, is there a more
> precise syntax checker that can actually point closer to the error line
> # a
> high % of the time?

No, it's just that Ruby is so flexible that your incorrect syntax
could well be right if you tidied it up at the end.

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Phillip Hutchings
http://www.sitharus.com/