write fails

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 1:18 PM -0500 8/25/2005, Ken Ray wrote:
>apparently the engine doesn't require there to be a space after keywords
>where there is something to evaluate that follows.

[...]

>   repeat while(x+1) < 10
>   put word(x+1) of "This is a test"
>
>Although this is consistent, it still *looks* wrong to me... it looks like
>"while" and "word" are functions in the example above. Is it just me, or is
>this a bug that has been in the engine for a long time?

Well, it's been in the engine a long time. I'm not sure I'd 
categorize it as a bug, per se... more of a "forgiveness" feature of 
the parser. This kind of forgiveness appears in other areas too - for 
example, you can write "firstVar&&secondVar" with no spaces, or "get 
rect of field 1" (with no "the") and it will work.

I think the upside is that the syntax is a little looser, but the 
downside is that someone may get used to an erroneous way of writing 
code, only to get into trouble if it gets tightened up down the 
line....
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