From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2003-02-14T15:05:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.0 bugs

james@lazyatom.com (James Adam) writes:

> 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.

What is "e3r2" and why do you think it should not be considered a
local variable or method?


> 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.

This sounds like a bug.  If you haven't yet, you might try a nightly
snapshot or build from CVS.


-- 
matt