On 26.11.2016 09:32, Nicolas Pillot wrote:
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// fails with: expecting EOF, found ',' @ line 4, column 16.
// test4 { n 121 }, 1

// fails with: expecting EOF, found ',' @ line 11, column 16
// test6 { n 349 }, { t "eufysalnvlw" }

// fails with: expecting EOF, found ',' @ line 18, column 16.
// test8 { n 581 }, 561, { t "kjxer" }
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Question is : I cannot figure out what rule or what reason "forces" me
to add parentheses to test 4/6/8 ... and i would love to know !

This is actually not so easy to explain, since this is a side-effect of the way the grammar for the parser is written... and they are potentially bugs.

if you have foo {}, then this is seen as a complete method call, the parser simply does not expect further arguments after the {} if you wrap the whole thing in parens, you actually have a different rule applying, which explains why it works there. But that is actually not precise enough. we have also a different rule for foo {} and foo 1, {}. So imho the parser simply applies the wrong rule first and the problems you see are a result of priorities... or missing lookahead

bye Jochen

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