Bug #20798: Missing spaces/punctuation in SyntaxError message.

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 3.4.0dev (2024-10-14T07:01:30Z master 1001ea9606) +PRISM [x86_64-darwin23]
• Backport: 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN

[sanjioh (Fabio Sangiovanni)]

Hi all,

with the following simple snippet of Ruby code:

def x.y.z
end

the interpreter raises a SyntaxError, whose message is made up of two sentences with no spaces or punctuation in between (see line no. 2 of the output):

scratch2.rb: --> scratch2.rb
expected a delimiter to close the parametersunexpected '.', ignoring it
> 1  def x.y.z
> 2  end

scratch2.rb:1: syntax errors found (SyntaxError)
> 1 | def x.y.z
    |        ^ unexpected '.', ignoring it
    |        ^ expected a delimiter to close the parameters
  2 | end
  3 |

This happens on master with the sentences reported above, but also on 3.3.5 with the sentences:
expected a delimiter to close the parameterscannot parse the expression.

Unfortunately I can't tell if the same glitch occurs with other error messages.

Thanks!

[kddnewton (Kevin Newton)]

This is an issue with the syntax suggest gem. Could you open an issue here please? https://github.com/ruby/syntax_suggest/issues

[sanjioh (Fabio Sangiovanni)]

kddnewton (Kevin Newton) wrote in #note-1:

This is an issue with the syntax suggest gem. Could you open an issue here please? https://github.com/ruby/syntax_suggest/issues

Oh of course! Thanks for letting me know.
This can be closed then.

Cheers

[kddnewton (Kevin Newton)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed