> Mark Waddingham wrote:
> On 2017-07-17 11:05, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote:
> > @Hermann
> > I am not sure if "{}" were left out on purpose or not, I'll ask Monte.
> > However, if you want to add them, you have to:
> 
> On Purpose. '{' is not a valid LCS bracket - so it shouldn't be appear 
> outside of strings.
> Similarly, single-quote isn't a valid LCS token - so it shouldn't appear 
> outside of strings.
> Indeed, bracket completion has to ignore content of strings otherwise 
> you can't write stuff like:
>    put ( ")" & "'" ) & ( "'" ) into tVar
> Without funky things happening.

Accepted that it's not there, of course.
But honestly, what I don't understand in your argumentation is:

Code completion doesn't force "{" or "'" to be outside of a string!?

Isn't this more a thing of editing only than of debugging/compiling?
The current completions occur also while I am typing inside of a string...

> single-quote isn't a valid LCS token - so it shouldn't appear outside
> of strings

The following compiles ;-)

on shouldn'tYouNotAppear?
   answer "Just for fun: No."
end shouldn'tYouNotAppear?


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