From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-11-19T21:13:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Class inside a Method Body

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Brian Candler wrote:

> David A. Black wrote:
>> the code is executed as it's encountered, and you get output before
>> and after the execution of the method definition. (Of course the
>> method body isn't executed until there's an object to which to send
>> the "x" method.)
>
> Except: when reading in a source file there is an initial parsing step
> to build the syntax tree, and if that fails then you get a parse error
> and nothing is executed. Mismatched 'end' statements will do that, for
> example.

I hadn't gotten into parsing just to keep it simple -- but in fact, it
does appear to be a parse-time/syntax error, rather than a runtime
error, which I hadn't noticed.


David

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