From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-08-20T03:31:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax checker wtf?

From: "Hal Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com>
> Bill Kelly wrote:
>
>> So, would "unexpected EOF, missing kEND from line 1" really be all
>> that helpful?
>> 
>> It seems like a missing 'end' would probably tend to be reported for
>> whatever line the outermost class or module being compiled started
>> on... (?)
>
> So unless it was whitespace-sensitive, it would tell you that it
> reached the end of file while parsing the expression that started
> on line 1.  :)

That was, indeed, the very nub of my gist.     :D



Regards,

John Cleese