From: Grimble <grimble@...>
Date: 2009-08-02T01:35:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax error from element.rb

Tim Hunter wrote:
> Grimble wrote:
>> Not a regular Ruby developer.
>> Rebuilding a Ruby environment after moving from Mandriva 2008.0 to 2009.1.
>>
>> ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i586-linux]
>> ruby-svg-1.0.2
>> I get the following error trace
>> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
>> `gem_original_require': /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/svg/element.rb:423:
>> syntax error, unexpected $undefined (SyntaxError)
>>       svg << %| textLength="#{@}"|   if @length
>>                                ^
> 
> svg << %| textLength="#{@}"|   if @length
> 
> isn't legal Ruby. The @ can't stand alone. It's a prefix indicating an 
> instance variable, like "@length". I don't know why it wasn't being 
> diagnosed before. It looks like an search-and-replace error of some sort.
> 
Tim, thanks for a quick reply.
I checked back to the previous version:
# $Id: element.rb,v 1.14 2003/02/06 14:59:43 yuya Exp $
The corresponding line was indeed:
       svg << %| textLength="#{@length}"|          if @length
So, I shall make the appropriate edit and retry.
Does this need to be reported as a bug?
Regards
Grimble