Can we improve the missing paren error message?

2000-09-14 Thread Ed Mills
use diagnostics; my $i=1; print 'hi' if ($i=1; running this with perl -wc (v 5.004, unix), I get perl -wc x.pl syntax error at x.pl line 3, near "1;" x.pl had compilation errors (#1) (F) The final summary message when a perl -c fails. Uncaught exception from user code:

Re: Can we improve the missing paren error message?

2000-09-14 Thread Bart Lateur
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:16:51 GMT, Ed Mills wrote: If I'm missing a "}" the compiler tells me its missing. That's also a syntax error, but it reports the actual missing "}". Why not do the same for ")"? That reminds me: if Perl reports a missing "}", "]" or ")", it would also be very nice if