From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2010-05-08T13:50:06+09:00
Subject: Re: * splat error

FYI:

~/projects/jruby ➔ jruby -e "def s(a,*b,c) end"
:1: -e:1: syntax error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER (SyntaxError)

def s(a,*b,c) end
            ^

~/projects/jruby ➔ jruby --1.9 -e "def s(a,*b,c) end"

~/projects/jruby ➔

Gotta love an interpreter that's two for the price of one :)

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2010/5/4 Kerwin Franks <kerwinfranks@yahoo.co.uk>:
>> Hello, i need some help here, when i run the following code i get the
>> error below. Why is that, according to the textbook it should work, also
>> looked it up in the cookbook, no luck there too. Thanks in advance.
>>
>> def split_apart(first, *splat, last)
>>  puts "first: #{first.inspect}, splat: #{splat.inspect}, " +
>>       "last: #{last.inspect}"
>>  end
>>
>> split_apart(1,2)
>> split_apart(1, 2, 3)
>>
>> Error:
>>
>> /home/gribota1/NetBeansProjects/Analyzer/lib/rubymethods.rb:32: syntax
>> error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting tAMPER or '&'
>> def split_apart(first, *splat, last)
>>                                   ^
>
> 10:49:13 test_2$ allruby -ce 'def s(a,*b,c) end'
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 padrklemme1 1.7.5(0.225/5/3) 2010-04-12 19:07 i686 Cygwin
> ========================================
> ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i386-cygwin]
> -e:1: syntax error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting tAMPER or '&'
> def s(a,*b,c) end
>            ^
> ========================================
> ruby 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [i386-cygwin]
> Syntax OK
> ========================================
> jruby 1.4.0 (ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 174) (2009-11-02 69fbfa3) (Java
> HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.6.0_20) [x86-java]
> SyntaxError in -e:1: , unexpected tIDENTIFIER
>
> def s(a,*b,c) end
>            ^
> 11:16:32 test_2$
>
> Cheers
>
> robert
>
>
> --
> remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end
> http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/
>
>