[ nice-Bugs-887976 ] unhelpful error message

Bugs item #887976, was opened at 2004-01-31 02:55
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Isaac Gouy (igouy)
Assigned to: Arjan Boeijink (arjanb)
Summary: unhelpful error message

Initial Comment:
It was quite difficult figuring out that there simply isn't a 
switch statement.

\Nice\Test\..\test\test.nice: line 6, column 16:
Encountered "1".
Was expecting one of:
    "(" ...
    "[" ...
    "." ...
    "=" ...
    <assignmentOperator> ...
    "++" ...
    "--" ...
    "[]" ...
    ":" ...
    "<" ...
    "[?]" ...
    "?" ...
    "->" ...
    <IDENT> ...


   void main(String[] args){  
       int j = 0;
       char i = 3;

       switch(i){
          case 1: 
             j = i; 
             break;
          case 2: 
             j = i; 
             break;
          case 3: 
             j = i; 
             break;
          default: 
             j = i; 
             break;
       }
    }


Nice compiler version 0.9.6 prerelease (build 2004.01.30, 
19:05:54 UTC)

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Comment By: Arjan Boeijink (arjanb)
Date: 2004-02-03 12:42

Message:
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Made switch a keyword:
Encountered "switch".
Was expecting one of:
    "(" ...
    "[" ...
    "{" ...
    "}" ...
    "?" ...
    "!" ...
    "assert" ...
    "for" ...
    "if" ...
    "while" ...
    "do" ...
    "true" ...
    "false" ...
    "alike" ...
    "super" ...
    "synchronized" ...
    "new" ...
    "null" ...
    "break" ...
    "continue" ...
    "return" ...
    "var" ...
    "let" ...
    "throw" ...
    "try" ...
    <INTEGER_LITERAL> ...
    <FLOATING_POINT_LITERAL> ...
    <CHARACTER_LITERAL> ...
    <MULTILINESTRING> ...
    <LSTRING> ...
    <BACKQUOTEDSTRING> ...
    <IDENT> ...
    "[]" ...
    "++" ...
    "--" ...



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Comment By: Daniel Bonniot (bonniot)
Date: 2004-02-01 22:40

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I suppose many people might be running into this one. How
about making "switch" a keyword and addind a specific error
message when it is used?

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