You made I good point. It’s clear that the extreme “take the shortest” rule is worse than the current “take the longest” rule. However that does not mean that there aren’t any rules that are still simple yet solve this problem (or make it much more unlikely). For example, disallowing (unquoted) binary operators ending with a “-“ and maybe a “.” might work in most cases and still would be pretty simple to understand.
Anyway, we both agreed that the current error message can be improved. I wish more could be done but I guess that all languages have their quirks.
