From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2007-09-06T13:28:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Missing "end" and My least favourite ruby error message....

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, John Carter wrote:

> "syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting kEND"
>
> With the line number pointing to the last line of the file.
>
> So I was busy doing something when I was interrupted and I dropped an
> "end" somewhere.
>
> No idea where.
>
> Sigh! Time for a binary chop search.
>
> I wish I could think of an easier way, like the highlighting emacs
> does for '(; and '{'

Binary chop was useless. Wherever I put an "end", it would compile!

It took me ages to review it line by line and spot it....

blah.each do |line|
   foo.bah( line)
   foo.blech
   foo.
end

Ruby helpfully thought I was invoking the "end" method on the object in the foo variable.

Sigh!

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