This explanation confuses me a bit, actually. (more inline) On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Larry Wall <la...@wall.org> wrote:
> In slightly greater detail, we're currently treating an undeclared > variable as a syntax error rather than a semantic error, and we treat > those differently. Syntax errors are usually treated as immediately > fatal becase they demonstrate we don't know what language we're parsing. > ...because that was kinda the point. But with one additional piece of metadata (when it last switched languages) and a small amount of domain knowledge (that multiline in the current language is less common than single-line) it can then suggest to the user that maybe there's a missing end-switch. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
