Re: Can we improve the missing paren error message?

[Bart Lateur]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:16:51 GMT, Ed Mills wrote:

>If I'm missing a "}" the compiler tells me its missing. That's also a syntax 
>error, but it reports the actual missing "}". Why not do the same for ")"? 

That reminds me: if Perl reports a missing "}", "]" or ")", it would
also be very nice if it also told me on what line the opening "{", "["
or "(" was.

A bare error message like

        Missing "}" at EOF

is silly.

-- 
        Bart.