On 08/12/2016 11:40 AM, Nicolai Hess wrote:
2016-08-12 20:30 GMT+02:00 Dale Henrichs
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
`'|' expected` is not the error message I would expect when the
message pattern is missing from a method and I try to accept in
browser:
| text |
text '|' expected ->:= self requestPassword
ifTrue: [ UIManager default requestPassword: self prompt ]
ifFalse: [ UIManager default request: self prompt
initialAnswer: self template ].
^ (text isNil or: [ text isEmpty ])
ifTrue: [ nil ]
ifFalse: [ text ]
The highlighter was also confused turning red at the `->` instead
at the very beginning of the method ...
yeah, this is a funny one.
I onced debugged the parser to find out why that's happening. Can you
spot why this is a valid method :
| text |
| ^ text
:)
I cheated and used the syntax highlighting to give me subtle but import
clues :) Things I missed when initially trying to figure out what I had
done wrong ... perhaps an error message that special cases this would be
called for: "'|' expected or missing message message pattern" ... There
are at least two developers who expected the syntax highlighter to do a
better job ... and I sent this thinking about newbies running into what
I assume would be a common mistake ...
Dale
