From: james@... (James Adam)
Date: 2003-02-14T08:10:42+09:00
Subject: Ruby 1.8.0 bugs

Can anyone confirm these bugs i've noticed in Ruby-1.8.0 on cygwin?

1) line numbers reported by error messages are too small.

i.e., with the following script:
== begin script, with line numbers ==
 |(1)| 1+3
 |(2)| 4+6
 |(3)| 
 |(4)| 7+5
 |(5)|
 |(6)|
 |(7)| 7+e3r2
== end script ==

i get the following error message:
test.rb:5: undefined local variable or method 'e3r2' ...

when you have comments in your code, it gets even more confusing.

2) file reading/writing is inconsistent.
using puts to write strings to a file gives a file with CR+LF line
endings, but gets and all other line-reading methods from I/O only
operate properly with LF line-terminated files. If the file uses
CR+LF, the first character of the line is read in as part of previous
line.

am i going mad? i really should've stuck with ruby 1.7, but the
temptation to play with new things was too great, and now i've got
fox/fxruby extensions installed it will take forever to recompile them
and reinstall them into a 1.7 system.

pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease help.

cheers

james