Found this while trying to debug a crash in a library that was failing 
to require due to a badly placed "break", one outside of a loop.

given the file "foo.rb":
puts "foo"
break
puts "bar"

The command "ruby foo.rb" gives:
Illegal break
foo.rb:3: compile error (SyntaxError)

Where the "3" is the last line of the file.  This makes finding where 
the actual error was relatively hard.

This is compared to "ruby1.8 foo.rb" giving:
foo
foo.rb:2: unexpected break (LocalJumpError)

Thanks,
John

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