Run the attached Ruby file.
The line mentioned for ArgumentError is 14, but the mistake is in line 17.
Ruby 1.6.5, 1.6.7 and 1.7.2 tested.
Bye,
Kero.
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misnumber-report.rb (443 Bytes)
Kero van Gelder kero@a26074.upc-a.chello.nl wrote in message news:20020628200654.GA1647@chmeee…
I think ArgumentError will point to the beginning of a method call if
the error is w/in a method call. ie. you’d see similar behavior if
the code was something like
packages.set(
Package.new(“ruby-dev”, “lib”, “extra”),
Package.new(“ruby-tk”, “lib”, “extra”),
Package.new(“ruby-doc”, “man”, “extra”),
Package.new(“ruby”, “interpreter”)
)
In general the parser’s error messages could use some work, but by the
time you feel adventurous enough to look into it you’ve gotten used to
them 
A friend of mine, Tom Clarke was working on fixing some of these – he
thought “NameError” in particular was a confusing message.
~ Patrick
Hi,
At Sat, 29 Jun 2002 05:06:34 +0900, Kero van Gelder wrote:
The line mentioned for ArgumentError is 14, but the mistake is in line 17.
Try this patch.
RCS file: /cvs/ruby/src/ruby/eval.c,v
retrieving revision 1.303
diff -u -2 -p -r1.303 eval.c
— eval.c 24 Jun 2002 07:20:42 -0000 1.303
+++ eval.c 30 Jun 2002 16:57:24 -0000
@@ -1860,4 +1860,5 @@ is_defined(self, node, buf)
int call = nd_type(node)== NODE_CALL;
ruby_sourceline = nd_line(node);
val = CLASS_OF(val);
if (call) {
@@ -2719,4 +2720,5 @@ rb_eval(self, n)
END_CALLARGS;
ruby_sourceline = nd_line(node);
result = rb_call(CLASS_OF(recv),recv,node->nd_mid,argc,argv,0);
}
@@ -2732,4 +2734,5 @@ rb_eval(self, n)
END_CALLARGS;
ruby_sourceline = nd_line(node);
result = rb_call(CLASS_OF(self),self,node->nd_mid,argc,argv,1);
}
@@ -2737,4 +2740,5 @@ rb_eval(self, n)
case NODE_VCALL:
ruby_sourceline = nd_line(node);
result = rb_call(CLASS_OF(self),self,node->nd_mid,0,0,2);
break;
–
Nobu Nakada