At 1:18 PM -0500 8/25/2005, Ken Ray wrote:
apparently the engine doesn't require there to be a space after keywords where there is something to evaluate that follows.
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repeat while(x+1) < 10 put word(x+1) of "This is a test" Although this is consistent, it still *looks* wrong to me... it looks like "while" and "word" are functions in the example above. Is it just me, or is this a bug that has been in the engine for a long time?
Well, it's been in the engine a long time. I'm not sure I'd categorize it as a bug, per se... more of a "forgiveness" feature of the parser. This kind of forgiveness appears in other areas too - for example, you can write "firstVar&&secondVar" with no spaces, or "get rect of field 1" (with no "the") and it will work.
I think the upside is that the syntax is a little looser, but the downside is that someone may get used to an erroneous way of writing code, only to get into trouble if it gets tightened up down the line....
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