Fixed or Not?
[1/2] from: pwawood::mango::net::my at: 2-Aug-2005 23:13
Back in October 2001, Gregg Irwin noted the following:
Does anyone know why the console chokes when you enter something like
this:
>> ; ignore "this string
** Syntax Error: Missing " at ; ignore "this string
If the string is inside a comment, why does it care? Executing the same
thing outside the console works fine. Is it something for feedback?
How did I discover this you ask? Well, I was pasting some stuff into the
console for testing, made some changes and ended up with a bad string
in a
comment. WHAMMO!
--Gregg
Gregg reported it to feedback (according to another message in the
thread). Core 2.5.6 still gives the same error message.
Is it really a bug? Has it been fixed in View 1.3? Should I submit it
to Rambo?
Regards
Peter
[2/2] from: volker::nitsch::gmail::com at: 2-Aug-2005 22:41
On 8/2/05, Peter WA Wood <[pwawood--mango--net--my]> wrote:
> Back in October 2001, Gregg Irwin noted the following:
> Does anyone know why the console chokes when you enter something like
<<quoted lines omitted: 12>>
> Is it really a bug? Has it been fixed in View 1.3? Should I submit it
> to Rambo?
Really a bug, Present in core 2.6.0.4.2, would submit it with low priority..
I guess the console does some own parsing to ask for missing "]"
simplifies syntax a bit, and the check for ";" was overlooked.
Here is another one:
!>{^}}
== "}"
!>{
{ ^}
** Syntax Error: Invalid string -- {
because console thinks the ^} is a real closing parent.
Instead, it should ask for another line.
My case is nitpicking, but i can imagine comments like
; no " needed here
ANd a check for ";" is cheap.
> Regards
> Peter
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