Re: Missing values and Script Editor request
Re: Missing values and Script Editor request
- Subject: Re: Missing values and Script Editor request
- From: Dave Balderstone <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:56:12 -0600
On 7-Sep-05, at 5:59 PM, Christopher Nebel wrote:
What's happening here is that it's trying to let you nest
comments. This is a bit tricky, as it requires ignoring things
like 'set smiley to "*)"', even when they occur inside a comment.
It's therefore trying to break things up into tokens, and falls
over when you give it lexical garbage like the example above.
Is this by design, or a bug?
It seems to me that if the
(*
this is a comment
*)
construct is deliberately part of the language then anything in that
construct *should* be treated as a comment.
The construct
set foo to "(*"
is obviously *not* a comment because the characters in question are
enclosed in another construct "" which should be interpreted first.
It further seems to me that this is a simple "order of operations"
decision like my daughter is now intensely studying on her second day
of Grade 10.
Is it useful to have this reported as a bug, Chris? Even if only to
get it bumped a spot or two up the list?
djb
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