From: Bob Gustafson <bobgus@...>
Date: 2001-10-10T09:47:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22359] Re: Odd SyntaxError - using 1.7.1

I'm pretty sure that the SyntaxError is due to a change in parse.y from
1.6.5 to 1.7.1  Taking a diff and grepping for YIELD shows a few lines
different, but parse.y is pretty complex. I'll let Matz work that one out.

Testing with the current stable version gives good results

[root@hoho0 gemfinder-1.9.6]# ruby -v
ruby 1.6.5 (2001-10-05) [i686-linux-gnu]
[root@hoho0 gemfinder-1.9.6]# gemfinder runtests.rb

    Gemfinder is running here..  Looks good. Will try on
    some 'real' files now.

Neat - thanks much.

BobG


>> jweirich@one.net wrote today:
>>>>>> "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.
>
>--
>-- Jim Weirich     jweirich@one.net    http://w3.one.net/~jweirich
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