$/kEND parse error nightmare

[Kurt V. Hindenburg]

Hello,
In all the time I've used Ruby, I've never come across such an aggravating,
uninformative error message... argh!

parse error, unexpected $, expecting kEND

wtf?

Regards,
Kurt

% ruby --version
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [sparc-linux]

 

[Logan Capaldo]

--Apple-Mail-14-184274963
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=US-ASCII;
delsp=yes;
format=flowed

parse error, unexpected $, expecting kEND

This means, unexpected end of line, (or possibly end of file) I was
expecting to see the keyword "end"


--Apple-Mail-14-184274963--

 

[gabriele renzi]

Kurt V. Hindenburg ha scritto:

Hello,
In all the time I've used Ruby, I've never come across such an aggravating,
uninformative error message... argh!

parse error, unexpected $, expecting kEND

wtf?

notice that before bison 2.0 you did not had neither this messages

I reported the strange messages around ruby-talk:179793 and matz said he
did not know of a way to get better error messages.

In ruby-talk:182173 I reported that there is a siple solution, at least
for some things, but I don't know if someone in ruby-core/dev ever read
or considered that, I guess providing a patch to parse.y would be
helpful

 

[Robin Stocker]

In ruby-talk:182173 I reported that there is a siple solution, at least
for some things, but I don't know if someone in ruby-core/dev ever read
or considered that, I guess providing a patch to parse.y would be
helpful

Hi,

With the help of your mail about how to add descriptive names to tokens
I wrote a patch and sent it to ruby-core
http://ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/7653

Regards,
Robin Stocker

 

[gabriele renzi]

Robin Stocker ha scritto:

Hi,

With the help of your mail about how to add descriptive names to tokens
I wrote a patch and sent it to ruby-core
http://ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/7653

well, great, I was hoping for something like this