Another issue with single quote comments

[clamzonprozac]

Howdy,
   I was just bitten again by one of my bad habits : sometimes when editing deep within a stack of include files  I place a comment
  after a statement by using a colon, followed by a single quote,  and then followed by my comment. Simple, one should think. Except
  if the quote is forgetfully omitted. The result is a terse "Compilation Failed" message, and many times scrolling back doesn't
  uncover a hint of a line number where the error occurred (FWIW: I use geany here). Yes, I have ways of hunting down the offending
  code area, but it takes time, but I'm hoping the error reporting mechanism(s) of BaCon can be modified to help out.

 Thanks for the read!
 Kind Regards,
-Roger

[Pjot]

Hi Roger,

When trying to reproduce your scenario, I do not see a "compilation error"?

For example:

PRINT FILELEN("/etc/hosts") : This is a comment


This will produce a syntax error, showing the line number where the error occurs:

Syntax error: could not parse line 1 in file 'debug.bac': "This is a comment"


Can you provide an example of your code which delivers "Compilation failed"?

BR
Peter

[clamzonprozac]

Hi Peter,

       I was afraid it would be difficult to reproduce. I've come across this behavior again since my last post. This time a bit different:

       the result was a "Compilation failed" message, and scrolling back the error was properly listed along with yet

       another legitimate error but appearing while processing the wrong include file. Odd. Very odd.  When time permits, 

       I'll try to come up with a sample set of files that demonstrate what I'm speaking of. BTW: at the moment I'm dealing 

      with 4 includes leading to the "main" file where the GUI definitions live ( in the "older" style of : NAME, ATTACH, CALLBACK  and friends).

Kind Regards,

-Roger

       

[Pjot]

Hi Roger,

If you have an example which demonstrates the issue, I'll be happy to fix it.

BR
Peter

[clamzonprozac]

Hi Peter,
    Thank you! If I can find an example, I'll send it over. Usually, I have to stumble over them.
Kind Regards,
-Roger