From: Bob Gustafson <bobgus@...>
Date: 2001-10-10T04:40:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22339] Odd SyntaxError - using 1.7.1

Hi

I am trying to use gemfinder-1.9.6 with the current cvs version of Ruby

   [user1@hoho0 user1]$ ruby -v
   ruby 1.7.1 (2001-10-05) [i686-linux-gnu]
   [user1@hoho0 user1]$

The fragment below shows a SyntaxError, but the code looks pretty good (in
fact, right out of the 'book' (Programming Ruby))

   /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/gem/methodfinder.rb:11:in `require':
   /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/gem/inject.rb:18: parse error (SyntaxError)
      each { |item| result = yield (result, item) }
                                           ^
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/gem/methodfinder.rb:11
        from /usr/local/bin/gemfinder:10:in `require'
        from /usr/local/bin/gemfinder:10

I edited that line to use the 'do .. end' form of bracketing instead of the
curly bracket style - but get the same SyntaxError

   [root@hoho0 gemfinder-1.9.6]# vim
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/gem/inject.rb
   [root@hoho0 gemfinder-1.9.6]# gemfinder runtests.rb
   /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/gem/methodfinder.rb:11:in `require':
   /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/gem/inject.rb:19: parse error (SyntaxError)
        result = yield (result, item)
                               ^
   /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/gem/inject.rb:26: parse error
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/gem/methodfinder.rb:11
        from /usr/local/bin/gemfinder:10:in `require'
        from /usr/local/bin/gemfinder:10

Note - In order to get this far, I had to edit the name of a 'require' file
- just took the underscore out of the middle of the filename because the
file being required does not have an underscore.

  listmodels.rb:require 'gem/when_missing'

I realize that I may be pushing the status of either or both of gemfinder
and ruby-1.7.1, but why not..

BobG