It's a "feature". This has always been allowed. No one really knows why.
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:53 AM, naderp <paul.na...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Given the following .proto definition:
>
> message person {
> required string name = 1;
> required int32 id = 2;
> }
>
> I noticed the following message syntax is valid:
>
> person: {
> name: "fred"
> id: 3
> }
>
> i.e., the generated parser will quite happily accept a colon after the
> compound message name (person: in this case).
>
> Is this a bug or a "feature"?
>
> Cheers
>
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