Yeah, IMHO it's academic, as the point to a compiler syntax checker is to avoid runtime errors down the road. Since this will not throw a runtime error, it's moot.
Bob S > On Oct 29, 2018, at 19:27 , Monte Goulding via use-livecode > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The parser is often lenient at the end of statements like this. > > In the case of the return statement it first looks for the expression to > return then checks if the next token is either `for` or `with`. If it isn’t > either of those it doesn’t look any further or throw an error. > > Really we should have a general check for extra stuff after parsing > statements but we don’t. Stuff like that can also be a bit risky to add as > all of a sudden a lot of scripts that work perfectly well might not compile. > > Cheers > > Monte > >> On 30 Oct 2018, at 12:00 pm, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I accidentally typed the equivalent of >> >> function x p >> return return p >> end x >> >> i.e. I had the word "return" in there twice. >> >> And it didn't give me an error on compilation, and also didn't just ignore >> the repeated word, it simply returned a blank line. >> >> Does it seem like this is a bug ? Is the parser too lenient ? >> >> (LC 9.0.0, and 8.1.5 tested) >> >> >> Ohhhh - and while testing it out for this email, I tried to type >> >> ask "a" & x(3) & "b" >> >> but instead I did >> >> ask "a" x(3) & "b" >> (i.e. missing an '&') >> >> and that too didn't give an error; it simply ignored the extra part of the >> line. !? >> >> Thanks >> >> Alex. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
