No informative error message on parse problem
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                 Key: PIG-1462
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1462
             Project: Pig
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 0.7.0
            Reporter: Ankur


Consider the following script

in = load 'data' using PigStorage() as (m:map[]);
tags = foreach in generate m#'k1' as (tagtuple: tuple(chararray));
dump tags;

This throws the following error message that does not really say that this is a 
bad declaration

org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.FrontendException: ERROR 1000: Error during 
parsing. Encountered "" at line 2, column 38.
Was expecting one of:
    
        at org.apache.pig.PigServer$Graph.parseQuery(PigServer.java:1170)
        at org.apache.pig.PigServer$Graph.registerQuery(PigServer.java:1114)
        at org.apache.pig.PigServer.registerQuery(PigServer.java:425)
        at 
org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.processPig(GruntParser.java:737)
        at 
org.apache.pig.tools.pigscript.parser.PigScriptParser.parse(PigScriptParser.java:324)
        at 
org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:162)
        at 
org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:138)
        at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt.exec(Grunt.java:89)
        at org.apache.pig.Main.main(Main.java:391)


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