On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Joel E. Denny wrote: > Also, there is another problem with syntax error messages that we've > discussed before and that LAC might expose further. Sometimes, when it > seems LAC should correct the expected token list in a syntax error > message, both the unexpected token and the expected token list are simply > dropped.
Oops. The unexpected token is still reported. Only the expected token list is dropped. > The problem here is that, for the sake of translation, the > expected token list is limited to 4 tokens. I'm thinking the user ought > to be able to control the limit, possibly removing the limit entirely. > Surely we can find some way to handle the translation issues. > > In any case, unless there's a simple fix, I don't expect to address this > in 2.5, but I should probably document it. NEWS should probably at least > mention that there are some minor caveats to read about in the manual.
