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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