From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-04-13T00:58:42+09:00
Subject: Re: memory exhausted

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:05:05 +0900, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> But what do we gain by this?

Eh, a little bit of correctness, I guess.  It's probably best if the parser can handle anything which is syntactically valid Ruby, even if it's a bit dumb.

(an alternative would be to actually have an explicit limit on the number of 'when' or 'rescue' branches in the grammar)

> I guess CASE statements of that size are quite a lot more inefficient
> than Hash lookups or other strategies.

Yes, case statements in Ruby are a linear search.  So too for rescue clauses.

-mental