Re: [Webmacro-devel] Weird bug

[Eric B. R. <eb...@tc...>]

On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 02:57  AM, Endre St=F8lsvik wrote:
> | Brian convinced me that we can somewhat easily get this particular
> | error message changed to something like:
> | 	"no zero-arg macro named #contentString"
>
> That would of course be _heaps and bounds_ (is that the English term?)

"Leaps and Bounds", but I kinda like "Heaps and Bounds"!

> better, and would of course lead me to look for the bug in the=20
> args-list,
> not scrutinize the spelling..
>
> And it's a much better error message anyway, since it says "I _do_=20
> have a
> directive of that name, but the one I know of have got some arguments,
> 'kay?".
>
> But .. shouldn't all such error messages say "directive or macro" .. ?

In this case, we'd be able to guess that it was a #macro.

> | However, we're still not gunna be able to pick up on the fact that=20=

> the
> | right-hand paren is missing.  That's something you'll still need to
> | figure out manually by looking at the error message and line/column
> | information.
>
> The parser often says things like "Found this thing, was expecting one=20=

> of
> these thingys ' ... ' ". Why couldn't it notice that there is missing =
a
> paren, given that it encounters "}" before the started "(" ?

No, because the parser doesn't count parens or braces.  At least I=20
think that's the case.

eric=