So as to make this not entirely content-free: I would suggest that the string language note the line on which it sees a bare newline, and if it subsequently hits a syntax error while still parsing that string it could output something like perl 5's "Possible runaway multi-line string starting on line ..." as a suggestion.
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 3:09 AM, Julien Simonet <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I think your problem is coming from a (") missing at line 3. >> At the same line, the semicolon (;) is misplaced : it should be at the >> end if line. >> > > It took older perl over a decade to come up with better error messages for > this. Can we please do it a bit sooner? > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > associates > [email protected] > [email protected] > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad > http://sinenomine.net > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
