Issue #18988 has been updated by yui-knk (Kaneko Yuichiro). Status changed from Open to Closed This is solved by https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20257 (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/9923). ---------------------------------------- Bug #18988: Ripper cannot parse some code that has regexp named capture https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18988#change-106913 * Author: tompng (tomoya ishida) * Status: Closed * Priority: Normal * ruby -v: ruby 3.2.0dev (2022-08-29T15:47:09Z :detached: cd7506593a) [x86_64-linux] * Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- Ripper does not seems to recognize regexp named capture defining new local variables, fails to parse some code. ~~~ruby requie 'ripper' # expect syntax ok, got syntax error Ripper.sexp("/(?<a>)/ =~ ''; x = a **a, a if false") # expect syntax error, got syntax ok Ripper.sexp("/(?<a>)/ =~ ''; x = a **a, **a if false") # "exit" is a method call, got string_literal Ripper.sexp("/(?<a>)/ =~ ''; a %(exit)") ~~~ -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/