[Cuis-dev] [QUESTION] Weird Chain Expressions

[Gerald Klix]

Sorry forgot to copy the closing „]“

[ :

arg | arg ] value: 1 ]


On 9/12/24 10:58 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Thanks and sorry for my dysgrammatical English.
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> While I am at it, this is also a feature/bug that puzzles me sometimes:
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> [ :
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> arg | arg ] value: 1
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> Shout and the scanner/parser accept it,
> but I am not sure, if this should be the acceptable.
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> Best Regards,
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> Gerald
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> On 9/12/24 8:57 PM, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> On 9/12/2024 10:42 AM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>> Hi all, hi Juan,
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>>> While this expression
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>>> 49 take: 6 :   : printStringBase: 36
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>>> is highlighted by shout as ungrammatical,
>>> but it is accepted by the scanner/parser.
>>> Am I right, that it was just easier to implement this way?
>>> I presume the scanner lacks the notion of a double-colon symbol.
>>> (I stumbled over this by (mis)using the scanner for other stuff).
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>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Gerald
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>> I just pushed a fix to make this throw an error in evaluation. The 
>> chain operator should be '::', no inner whitespace allowed.
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>> Thanks for reporting!
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