On a slightly more positive note, that PR indeed resolves this ticket. I think the new error message is clear enough.
On 2017-10-08 00:52:36, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > There is a PR but it's really bad: > https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/pull/1188 > > On 2016-04-07 17:05:15, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > > Code: > > loop (my $x = 0, $x < 10, $x++) {} > > > > Result: > > ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling -e > > Malformed loop spec > > at -e:1 > > ------> loop (my $x = 0, $x < 10, $x++⏏) {} > > > > > > The error message is not bad at all. But it would be awesome if it > > could detect that the programmer used commas instead of semicolons.
