On Sat Nov 17 11:40:48 2012, coke wrote:
> On Mon Jun 07 14:23:47 2010, cognominal wrote:
> > I am probably a lousy programmer but I hit again and again that
> > unhelpful message.
> >
> > How to reproduce :
> >
> > eval "{\n\n\n\n\'}"
> >
> > Unable to parse blockoid, couldn't find final '}' at line 1
>
> Getting closer (I'm assuming the \n's above were meant to be newlines,
> but I did it both ways
> below) although the given line numbers are wrong below:
>
> $ cat a.p6
> eval "{\n\n\n\n\'}"
> $ ./perl6 a.p6
> ===SORRY!===
> Unable to parse expression in block; couldn't find final '}' at line
> 2, near "\\n\\n\\n\\n\\'"
> $ cat b.p6
> eval "{
>
>
>
> \'}"
> $ ./perl6 b.p6
> ===SORRY!===
> Unable to parse expression in quote:sym<apos>; couldn't find final "'"
> at line 7, near ""
Slight improvements; line number in the second one is now only off by one,
error messages now reference the file.
$ cat a.p6
eval "{\n\n\n\n\'}"
$ ./perl6 a.p6
===SORRY!=== Error while compiling a.p6
Confused
at a.p6:1
------> eval "{\n\⏏n\n\n\'}"
$ cat b.p6
eval "{
\'}"
$ ./perl6 b.p6
===SORRY!=== Error while compiling b.p6
Unable to parse expression in single quotes; couldn't find final "'"
at b.p6:6
------> <BOL>⏏<EOL>
expecting any of:
single quotes
term$ ./perl6 --version
This is perl6 version 2015.07.1-898-g3655638 built on MoarVM version
2015.08-34-g113c3b5
--
Will "Coke" Coleda
