Issue #19451 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze). The calling backtrace and the location of the error are separated things, so I don't think we should mix them. Adding `SyntaxError#lineno` would make sense IMO. ---------------------------------------- Feature #19451: Extract path and line number from SyntaxError? https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19451#change-101956 * Author: ioquatix (Samuel Williams) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal ---------------------------------------- There doesn't seem to be any official way to extract the path and line number from a syntax error. There are two ways I can see us dong this: - Provide explicit `path` and `line_number` attributes. - Prepend them to `backtrace_locations`. The nice thing about the latter approach is that it will just work with existing tools which understand how to highlight code based on backtrace locations. Maybe we should do both? -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/