On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:23:49AM +0200, Abigail wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 04:26:28PM -0500, David Nicol wrote:
> >
> > could we extend the bit of code that gets quoted when a parsing failure
> > is thrown to include the whole expression under consideration at the
> > time rather than the last few tokens when things get impossible?
> >
> > The confusing situation occurs when there are a whole bunch of tokens
> > preceding a normal if(expr){ what happens is, the error is reported as
> > being near '){' when it is not.
>
> It's not? Placing a a semi-colon between the ')' and '{' makes it
> valid syntax. Putting a ';' after 'comment', or placing a '#' before
> 'poorly' also make it syntax, but it will be a bit hard to guess which
> of the three mistakes the programmer made.
>
Which, I believe, is why David suggests that the error include the whole
expression, rather than just the last few tokens, so that *the programmer*
can more easily figure out which mistake was made.
Ronald
