Hmmm - no compilation error ?

[Bob Sneidar]

Yeah, IMHO it's academic, as the point to a compiler syntax checker is to avoid runtime errors down the road. Since this will not throw a runtime error, it's moot. 

Bob S


> On Oct 29, 2018, at 19:27 , Monte Goulding via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> The parser is often lenient at the end of statements like this. 
> 
> In the case of the return statement it first looks for the expression to return then checks if the next token is either `for` or `with`. If it isn’t either of those it doesn’t look any further or throw an error.
> 
> Really we should have a general check for extra stuff after parsing statements but we don’t. Stuff like that can also be a bit risky to add as all of a sudden a lot of scripts that work perfectly well might not compile.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Monte
> 
>> On 30 Oct 2018, at 12:00 pm, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I accidentally typed the equivalent of
>> 
>> function x p
>>   return return p
>> end x
>> 
>> i.e. I had the word "return" in there twice.
>> 
>> And it didn't give me an error on compilation, and also didn't just ignore the repeated word, it simply returned a blank line.
>> 
>> Does it seem like this is a bug ?  Is the parser too lenient ?
>> 
>> (LC 9.0.0, and 8.1.5 tested)
>> 
>> 
>> Ohhhh - and while testing it out for this email, I tried to type
>> 
>> ask "a" & x(3) & "b"
>> 
>> but instead I did
>> 
>> ask "a"  x(3) & "b"
>> (i.e. missing an '&')
>> 
>> and that too didn't give an error; it simply ignored the extra part of the line. !?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Alex.
>> 
>> 
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