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17 changes: 14 additions & 3 deletions lib/irb/ruby-lex.rb
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Expand Up @@ -135,11 +135,22 @@ def should_continue?(tokens, line, line_num)

def check_code_syntax(code, local_variables:)
result = Prism.lex(code, scopes: [local_variables])
return :valid if result.success?
if result.success?
:valid
elsif result.respond_to?(:continuable?)
result.continuable? ? :recoverable_error : :unrecoverable_error
else # For Prism <= 1.9.0. Drop this branch when IRB requires Prism >= 1.10.0.
check_syntax_error_heuristics(result)
end
end

# Prism <= 1.9.0 does not have `ParseResult#continuable?` method.
# Fallback to legacy heuristics based on error messages and error locations.
def check_syntax_error_heuristics(prism_parse_result)

# Get the token excluding trailing comments and newlines
# to compare error location with the last or second-last meaningful token location
tokens = result.value.map(&:first)
tokens = prism_parse_result.value.map(&:first)
until tokens.empty?
case tokens.last.type
when :COMMENT, :NEWLINE, :IGNORED_NEWLINE, :EMBDOC_BEGIN, :EMBDOC_LINE, :EMBDOC_END, :EOF
Expand All @@ -150,7 +161,7 @@ def check_code_syntax(code, local_variables:)
end

unknown = false
result.errors.each do |error|
prism_parse_result.errors.each do |error|
case error.message
when /unexpected character literal|incomplete expression at|unexpected .%.|too short escape sequence/i
# Ignore these errors. Likely to appear only at the end of code.
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