I think it is still possible to implement meaningful error messages. A good overview of how this can be done is here: http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~jeffery/merr.html.
Anyway, if you disagree, I will resend patch with explicit error check.

Alexandre Julliard wrote:

I think checking values explicitly is preferable to encoding them in
the syntax, since it gives you a chance to provide meaningful
errors. If you rely on the parser all you'll get is a generic "syntax
error" with no clue to what you did wrong.


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