From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-04-09T23:21:50+09:00
Subject: Re: line directives

Robert Klemme wrote:
> In C one often had to correct messed up compilers - dunno why you should
> need that in Ruby though.  Anyway, the eval family of functions has often
> additional arguments that can be used to set file and line:

I aways thought the line directive was used by preprocessors, so that 
compile errors in the C source code would reference lines in the 
preprocessor input.  Ratfor did this (for example).

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