Chunk order must be small to large

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Mar 12 15:15:08 EDT 2009


DunbarX at aol.com wrote:
> Stephen;
> 
> Right. I was cavalier in thinking I can validate Rev issues by emulating them 
> in HC. This is not fair to Rev.
> 
> I like parentheses.
> 
> But is this really a bug? Or just the way the parser works? I have many 
> constructs in HC (get word line item 3 of the...) and I hope that this probably 
> common and well regarded methodology is fully transparent to Rev, too. If I have 
> to use parentheses, well, OK. So report or no? Anyone?

I don't think it's a bug, it's just how the parser works. Rev is far 
more particular in many respects than HC, which is partly what gives it 
such a speed increase. Enforced quoting of literals is another example, 
along with the inability to use keywords as variable names.

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