So as to make this not entirely content-free: I would suggest that the string language note the line on which it sees a bare newline, and if it subsequently hits a syntax error while still parsing that string it could output something like perl 5's "Possible runaway multi-line string starting on line ..." as a suggestion.
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 3:09 AM, Julien Simonet <kernel.jul...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I think your problem is coming from a (") missing at line 3. >> At the same line, the semicolon (;) is misplaced : it should be at the >> end if line. >> > > It took older perl over a decade to come up with better error messages for > this. Can we please do it a bit sooner? > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > associates > allber...@gmail.com > ballb...@sinenomine.net > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad > http://sinenomine.net > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net