From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-03-29T22:38:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02244] Re: Misleading IO error message

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:02229] Re: Misleading IO error message"
    on 00/03/28, schneik@us.ibm.com <schneik@us.ibm.com> writes:

|I got an error message of the following form:
|
|    ./oops.rb:9005:in `open': No such file or directory - /w/x/y/z (Errno::ENOENT)
|    
|
|But there was such a directory!

Ok, wrap the filename by `'.  But current implementaion puts exception
names right after the first newline, then it would be:

  ./oops.rb:9005:in `open': No such file or directory - '/w/x/y/z (Errno::ENOENT)
  '

It's still misleading in some degree.  Maybe little bit better though.

							matz.