Re: Diagnostics?

[email protected] (Vadim Belman) Mon, 8 Jul 2019 13:46:28 -0400
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language
Message-ID <[email protected]>
If you think this is a bug you're always welcome to open a ticket at =
https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues. Even if it eventually would =
turn out to be not a bug that wouldn't hurt anybody.

In either case it would be very welcomed to always include examples =
paired with output.

Best regards,
Vadim Belman

> On Jul 8, 2019, at 11:42 AM, Parrot Raiser <[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
> I've been fiddling with multi-line comments and the bounding
> characters. Naturally-paired characters  e.g. #`(...)  #`[...] #`{...}
> all work well, but with other boundary characters like #`@....@ or
> #`!....! produce odd, displaced, diagnostic messages. Reproducing them
> is so easy, I'll leave it as "an exercise for the reader".
>=20
> If unpaired boundary characters like these are legal, presumably
> there's a problem with the parser or compiler?
> If they aren't, maybe a) the docs should be more explicit, and b), the
> diagnostics should say so, immediately?
>=20
> perl6 -v
> This is Rakudo Star version 2019.03.1 built on MoarVM version 2019.03
>=20