From: "Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido@...>
Date: 2013-02-05T22:47:26+09:00
Subject: Re: old syntax? what's going on here

	Subject: old syntax? what's going on here
	Date: mar 05 feb 13 10:33:35 +0900

Quoting tamouse mailing lists (tamouse.lists@gmail.com):

> I have this in a _spec.rb file: (a gem I inherited at work)
> 
> Open3.expects(:popen3).with do |command|
>       case part_of_command
>       when Regexp: command =~ part_of_command
>       when String: command.include?(part_of_command)
>       else raise "Can't match that"
>       end
>     end

Are you sure that code ever worked?

From my very worn copy of "Ruby in a nutshell":

"A *when* statement's *expression* is separated from *code* by the
reserved word *then*, a newline, or a semicolon."

That colon should be a semicolon (or *then* or a newline)...

Carlo

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