From: darren kirby <bulliver@...>
Date: 2006-08-19T03:19:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax checker wtf?

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quoth the Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality:
>
>     Okay, judging from your examples, I think the problem is that you're
> hitting  a rather sore spot in the Ruby interpreter.  I've done a few
> examples and it looks as if the Ruby parser does a lazy evaluation of
> parenthesized (and bracketed) things.  It just so happens that these are
> exactly the kind of mistakes you make so they really seem to bite you.
>     The only thing I can suggest is that you close all your brackets and
> functions before filling them.  So, while editing, you'll write things in
> this order:
>
> def some_function
> end
>
>     ..and then...
>
> def some_method
>     @member[]
> end
>
>     ...and finally...
>
> def some_method
>     @member[@other + 2]
> end

Some editors (kate for one) can even do this for you. Type a single or doub=
le=20
quote and it will close it for you, as well as for all manner of=20
braces '(', '{', '['....

I tried used it myself for a while but found it too annoying, as I generall=
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closed my own braces out of habit, and there are those times when you reall=
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do just want opening braces...

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darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
=2D Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

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