title: Ruby: syntax error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting ')'
body: <p>Working on exercise #26 of Learn Ruby The Hard Way -- correcting a ficticious programmer's bad code.</p>
  
  <p>I've got most of it worked out, but can't even get to testing because I keep getting this syntax error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>syntax error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting ')'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...on this line:</p>
  
  <pre><code>sentence = "All good\tthings come to those who wait."
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I thought that was always the way variables were declared? Since the error was listing parens, I tried those too -- around sentence (even though it made no sense), around the string (both with and without quotes), with the equals sign, without the equals sign...I'm not really sure what the issue is here.</p>