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[ruby-talk:02258] Re: Misleading IO error message

From: "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@...>
Date: 2000-03-30 07:34:52 UTC
List: ruby-talk #2258
Hi,

From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp>

> 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--I just realized I didn't read your example carefully enough after
reading the previous sentence.

Did you really mean to say, "... puts exception names just _before_ the
first newline ..."?

>   ./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.

Conrad

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