Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:04:43AM -0700, Moritz Lenz wrote: >> Rakudo as of r28692 reports a slightly wrong context on reporting parse >> failures. >> >> When trying to parse t/spec/S02-builtin_data_types/lists.t (r21012) it >> reports: >> >> Statement not terminated properly at line 118, near "= [EMAIL PROTECTED];" >> current instr.: 'parrot;PGE::Util;die' pc 120 >> (runtime/parrot/library/PGE/Util.pir:82) >> >> But line 118 reads like this: >> my $arrayref = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; >> >> So there's just a single backslash, while two get reported. I see no >> need for extra quoting in the error message. > > What if there's a newline or other special character in the source > at the point of the error? Should those be quoted?
I didn't think really think about that. Yes, it should be quoted, and for the sake of consistency that means that backslashes should also be quoted. You can reject this ticket if you like. -- Moritz Lenz http://moritz.faui2k3.org/ | http://perl-6.de/
