From: Rudolf Polzer <denshimeiru-sapmctacher@...>
Date: 2003-08-17T02:16:09+09:00
Subject: Re: list of Ruby capable text editors?

Scripsit ille aut illa �Mauricio Fern�ndez� <batsman.geo@yahoo.com>:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 10:55:41PM +0900, Rudolf Polzer wrote:
> > elvis doesn't have ANY Ruby syntax highlighting and vim's doesn't work in
> > the case

> [nit-picking]
> well, in this case Ruby thinks like vim :)

> batsman@tux-chan:/tmp$ expand -t4 t.rb
> def foo()
>   return if true
>     23
>   else
>     42
>   end
> end
> 
> p foo
> batsman@tux-chan:/tmp$ ruby t.rb
> t.rb:6: warning: else without rescue is useless
> t.rb:7: syntax error

Oops... that's what I get for making the "simplest possible example".

> However 
>  a = if true
>        1
>      else
>        2
>      end
> fails as you describe.

And that's what I really wrote...

but thanks, that should explain why vim is doing that wrong. And that
it's probably not easy to fix so that both if-suffixes and if-expressions
are highlighted correctly.

Hm... it can even be ambigous:

puts foo if true
  17
else
  42
end

does NOT what one might expect. The if is seen as a one-line if. There's
no if-expression for the first argument of foo like in

puts foo(if true
  17
else
  42
end)


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