Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote: > Why does the expression in the SATISFY clause have to be put in square > brackets?
> The example from the manual does not use square brackets: > REM 13 SATISFY wkdaynum(trigdate()) == 5 Because the expression parser gets confused by: REM 13 SATISFY wkdaynum(trigdate()) == 5 MSG foo It's still in "expression-parsing" mode when it encounters MSG and it has no idea what to do with it. This version clearly indicates the end of expression-parsing mode: REM 13 SATISFY [wkdaynum(trigdate()) == 5] MSG foo I wrote the Remind parser back in around 1992, when I'd never heard of lex, yacc, recursive-descent parsers, grammars, etc. :-( It's a rather naive brute-force hard-coded parser. Regards, David _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans
