From: jweirich@...
Date: 2001-10-10T08:40:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22353] Re: Odd SyntaxError - using 1.7.1

>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Gustafson <bobgus@mcs.com> writes:

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

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

I've not tried the 1.7.1 series yet.

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

    Bob> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/gem/methodfinder.rb:11:in `require':
    Bob> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/gem/inject.rb:18: parse error (SyntaxError)

The error seems to be in the 'inject' method.  I believe 1.7.x
provides a version of 'inject' or 'reduce', I'm not sure what the
final name was.  Perhaps there is a conflict.

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

Thanks.  Someone else also pointed this out.  It seems my environment
had *both* versions of the when_missing file.  I'll fix this on the
next update.

If you find out what the 1.7.x problem is, I'll include any fixes for
that as well.

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