[MOO-Cows] Missing quote oddity when compiling verbs

[Daniel Jung]

[Note to enCore list: This is maybe nerd stuff]
[Note to moo-cows: This is maybe just-below-basics]

Lambda MOO 1.8.0r5.
Compiling this:
    {1, 2, 3, 4} = args;
    {} = args;
    1 = 2;
    break;
    continue;
    $;
    ";
    ";
    ";
    ";
    ";
returns these errors (from the parser.y file):
    Line 1: Scattering assignment targets must be simple variables.
    Line 2: Empty list in scattering assignment.
    Line 3: Illegal expression on left side of assignment.
    Line 4: No enclosing loop for `break' statement
    Line 5: No enclosing loop for `continue' statement
    Line 6: Illegal context for `$' expression.
    Line 7: Missing quote
    Line 7: Missing quote
    Line 7: parse error
What I find peculiar is "missing quote" loop. After line 7, line 8 is 
read (apparently) and the missing quote in line 8 detected. The line 
count stops at line 7, however, and the final "parse error" is assigned 
to line 7 as well. The Missing quote case seems to be caught up in a 
loop for itself instead of following the "lineno++" iteration, thus 
disregarding the latter.

Reducing the verb body to
    ";
returns
    Line 1: Missing quote
    Line 1: parse error
and expanding it to
    ";
    ";
    $;
    {} = args;
returns
    Line 1: Missing quote
    Line 1: Missing quote
    Line 1: parse error
The Missing quote case seems thus to be the only error aborting the 
parsing of the rest.

Why is this so? Would you consider this a bug (... to be reported to 
Sourceforge), or am I just missing something? Cannot find it anything 
usefull on google, nor on 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=103692&group_id=3692&func=browse etc.


(Another thing: It would be very nice to have fmt_error() return not 
only the line number, but the charater position as well... with the 
missing quote, that would per def. be EOL, and not very helpful, of 
course, but the other compiling error cases would be nice to have an 
index for. Would that mean having lex_getc() return something and then 
passing it along for every case? ... I couldn't possibly do it.)

Thanks for input:
- Daniel
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