Alex.
P.S. : And please excuse me too for my poor english :-(
David Boersma wrote:
Hi!
When you run a faulty perl script the line number you get is the line number corresponding to the whole statement (which may be spread over several lines of code). If you forget e.g. a semicolon after a statement, the interpreter will complain about the NEXT line in the file (which you intended to be the next statement). And there are many other reasons why a compiler/interpreter/parser might not immediately stumber over your 'error', but keeps on trying and runs into trouble only later.
I suppose that when Lily code is parsed it is also grouped into smaller and larger 'statements' or music fragments. A bar would be logical unit. In your example the first c4 c c is a bar, then the next bar would be "\gasp c4 c c" and only when the parser finished reading that it decides that it can't make sense out of it. Just as in programming/scripting, I always assume that the actual error is anywhere between the beginning of the file and the quoted line number.
The parsers and compilers already need to be very very very intelligent to deal with grammatically correct code. Imagine making a parser/compiler which interprets 'incorrect' code... Although one might think of producing humane error output based on a list of frequently made mistakes. For C and other languages this is not implemented in the compiler but in code analyzing programs like 'lint'. Maybe somebody would like to write a 'lynt'? (Although that would be a very hard job, as the lily 'language' is still evolving and not fixed in standards).
Ciao, David Boersma
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Alexandre Beneteau wrote:
Hello,
Considering this example with error a line number 6 :
\header {tagline = ""} \score { \notes \relative c { \time 3/4 c4 c c \gasp % error c4 c c } }
When compiling lilypond 1.7.13 report error by printing line 5 :
ly2dvi test.ly ly2dvi (GNU LilyPond) 1.7.13 Running lilypond...GNU LilyPond 1.7.13 Now processing: `test.ly' Parsing... /home/alex/documents/partitions/CNSM/Orchestration/Laboratoires/2003/test.ly:5:12: error: parse error, unexpected SCM_IDENTIFIER: c4 c c
ly2dvi: error: LilyPond failed on input file test (exit status 1) ly2dvi: warning: Running LilyPond failed. Rerun with --verbose for a trace. (6 of 13): 12: error: parse error, unexpected SCM_IDENTIFIER:
Could someone explain how to fix it ? Thanks.
Alex.
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