[perl #125247] [LTA] Error message for unclosed multiline comments points to last line of the file

2017-10-06 Thread Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev via RT
FWIW for those wondering how exactly it was resolved, here's the commit: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/382c78a97ae6132d0054e0112cf19ceb2d50fef6 On 2016-12-10 10:10:48, c...@zoffix.com wrote: > Tests now exist: >

Re: [perl #125247] Unclosed multiline comments - bad error message

2015-05-31 Thread Alex Jakimenko
Yeah! It says this now: ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling ./test.pl Couldn't find terminator ) (corresponding ( was at line 7) at ./test.pl:10 -- BOL⏏EOL expecting any of: ) This can be closed. On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Rob Hoelz via RT perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org

[perl #125247] Unclosed multiline comments - bad error message

2015-05-26 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Alex Jakimenko # Please include the string: [perl #125247] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125247 Code like this: #!/usr/bin/env perl6 #`{{ some comments here Gives this error

[perl #73758] [BUG] Multiline comments fail in rakudo

2010-05-30 Thread jn...@jnthn.net via RT
On Mon Mar 22 14:00:14 2010, lue wrote: On Mon Mar 22 13:57:43 2010, lue wrote: lue rakudo: #`hello␤there p6eval rakudo 35f337: OUTPUT«Confused at line 12, near there␤current instr.: 'perl6;HLL;Grammar;panic' pc 500 (ext/nqp-rx/src/stage0/HLL-s0.pir:328)␤» lue you're right, it

[perl #73758] [BUG] Multiline comments fail in rakudo

2010-03-23 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Life U. Everything # Please include the string: [perl #73758] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=73758 lue rakudo: #`hello?there p6eval rakudo 35f337: OUTPUT«Confused at line 12,

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 11:28:54AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: : Paul Hodges wrote: : http://perl6.org/doc/design/syn/S02.html still says: : Intra-line comments will not be supported in standard Perl : : This is wrong, since S02 also defines intra-line comments, under : Whitespace and

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-03 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Jan 3, 2008 6:36 PM, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 11:28:54AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: : Paul Hodges wrote: : http://perl6.org/doc/design/syn/S02.html still says: : Intra-line comments will not be supported in standard Perl Note that the document on

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-03 Thread Paul Hodges
--- Jonathan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Hodges wrote: http://perl6.org/doc/design/syn/S02.html still says: Intra-line comments will not be supported in standard Perl This is wrong, since S02 also defines intra-line comments, under Whitespace and Comments. It calls them

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:55:24PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: : On Jan 3, 2008 6:36 PM, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 11:28:54AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: : : Paul Hodges wrote: : : http://perl6.org/doc/design/syn/S02.html still says: : : Intra-line comments

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-02 Thread Paul Hodges
I love this list. I wish I had more of value to contribute. =o] But for those of you who don't want to read a long blather, this is mostly opinion, hopefully sans soapbox. Feel free to skip to the end. asnideWhat's with the sudden influx of people swooping in at the last minute and attacking

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-02 Thread Jonathan Lang
Paul Hodges wrote: http://perl6.org/doc/design/syn/S02.html still says: Intra-line comments will not be supported in standard Perl This is wrong, since S02 also defines intra-line comments, under Whitespace and Comments. It calls them 'embedded comments'. You don't need a 'use' statement.

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-02 Thread Jonathan Lang
I've been putting a fair amount of thought into this. Here's what I've come up with: Perl 6 has several instances where whitespace is required or forbidden in order to better facilitate Do What I Mean programming: for instance, by having the presence or absence of whitespace before curly braces

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-02 Thread Jonathan Lang
Jonathan Lang wrote: How about '~#', meaning something along the lines of string-like comment? The idea is that the syntax that follows this would conform closely to that of string literals (i.e., quotes). We might even consider loosening the restrictions on delimiter characters, allowing

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-30 Thread Jonathan Lang
Christian Mueller wrote: i don't know the actually state in the discussion about multiline comments, but i would propose an idea.. a combination of POD's = and the traditional route char... Perl 6 already has a robust system for multiline and embedded comments, as described in S02 under

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
On 30/12/2007, Jonathan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only wart is that '#( ... )' cannot begin at the very start of a line; but it's easy enough to get around that restriction - say, with some leading whitespace. Thanks for the reply - can you please what is the problem with having it in

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-30 Thread Jonathan Lang
Amir E. Aharoni wrote: On 30/12/2007, Jonathan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only wart is that '#( ... )' cannot begin at the very start of a line; but it's easy enough to get around that restriction - say, with some leading whitespace. Thanks for the reply - can you please what is

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-30 Thread Offer Kaye
On Dec 30, 2007 6:10 PM, Jonathan Lang wrote: Short answer: the compiler has no way of knowing whether the programmer wants an embedded comment or a line comment; so instead of guessing, it requires the programmer to disambiguate. [...snip...] # if ($test) # { .say; # } else

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-30 Thread Mark J. Reed
Whitespace is significant in many places. Even in some of the corners of Perl 5. Perl 6 has a different set of rules, and it will take some getting used to, but the rules are designed to let you do things as naturally as possible.This, for instance, works fine: my @values = # (1,2,3) #

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-30 Thread Jonathan Lang
Offer Kaye wrote: #( commenting out a large code section, yey for Perl6 multi-line comments... if ($foo) { print ...or not :(\n } ) # this should have been the end of the embedded comment ...and since it wasn't, you probably should have chosen other brackets such as: #[[

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-30 Thread Christian Mueller
. Is it not possible to skip the commented sections by the parser? Why have every other popular language, that i know, multiline comments included without any problems? It would be very useful for better developing with perl. If you would use a mlc like =# #= where the opening tag must stay

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-30 Thread Shane Calimlim
On Dec 30, 2007 8:10 AM, Jonathan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's say that the programmer in question wants to comment out all but the third line; so he prefixes everything else with '#': #if ($test) #{ .say; #} else { # .doit; #} What the writer _wants_ this to do is the

Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-29 Thread Christian Mueller
Hello list, i don't know the actually state in the discussion about multiline comments, but i would propose an idea.. a combination of POD's = and the traditional route char... =# this is a multi line comment #= =# comment #= this is not commented What you think about it? regards Christian

Re: multiline comments

2005-10-12 Thread Alfie John
On 12/10/2005, at 3:33 PM, Luke Palmer wrote: On 10/11/05, Alfie John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Perl6 support multiline comments? Yes, in the form of pod blocks. =begin comment =end comment They nest, too. Luke But does that then break my lovely formatted pod like it does

Re: multiline comments

2005-10-12 Thread Mark A. Biggar
Alfie John wrote: Hi (), This is probably a stupid question, but I can't find anything from google: Does Perl6 support multiline comments? Briefly, No and kind of. Standard Perl 6 comments are just like those in Perl 5. A '#' starts a comment that is terminated by the end of line

Re: multiline comments

2005-10-12 Thread Alfie John
On 12/10/2005, at 4:18 PM, Mark A. Biggar wrote: Alfie John wrote: Hi (), This is probably a stupid question, but I can't find anything from google: Does Perl6 support multiline comments? Briefly, No and kind of. Standard Perl 6 comments are just like those in Perl 5. A '#' starts

Re: multiline comments

2005-10-12 Thread Luke Palmer
On 10/12/05, Alfie John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/10/2005, at 3:33 PM, Luke Palmer wrote: =begin comment =end comment But does that then break my lovely formatted pod like it does in Perl5? Try this: % cat dosomething.pl =head1 TITLE Thingy - do something =head1 DESCRIPTION =over

Re: multiline comments

2005-10-12 Thread Juerd
Alfie John skribis 2005-10-12 15:28 (+1000): Does Perl6 support multiline comments? All incarnations of Perl have allowed us to begin multiple subsequent lines with the comment glyph '#'. I am sure Perl 6 will not break this tradition. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http

Re: multiline comments

2005-10-12 Thread Alfie John
It was just kind of a pain because you had to put a =cut after the =end, and because you had to put paragraph spaces between everything. We're getting rid of both of those restrictions. Excellent! That's what was really bugging me. I'm really glad that is changing :) Thanks, Alfie

multiline comments

2005-10-11 Thread Alfie John
Hi (), This is probably a stupid question, but I can't find anything from google: Does Perl6 support multiline comments? Alfie John

Re: multiline comments

2005-10-11 Thread Luke Palmer
On 10/11/05, Alfie John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Perl6 support multiline comments? Yes, in the form of pod blocks. =begin comment =end comment They nest, too. Luke