Re: problems with some 'End' marks

[BB <adamnt42@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/3/25 2:39 pm, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Le 29/03/2025 à 03:05, BB a écrit :
> > WHY WAS THIS DONE!
> >
> > Are we turning into python now?
> >
> > Whitespace has hitherto meant nothing.
> >
> > unhappy as I occassionally want to indent whole methods to make them 
> > stand out in the editor/printout.🙁
> >
> > b
>
> I done that to prevent an annoying mistake: if someone writes "End" 
> instead of "End If" by mistake, the compiler emits errors hard to 
> understand.
>
> It took me a lot of minutes to find the problem in a small function 
> written by someone else.
>
> As "End" alone is only a keyword used for closing functions, and as 
> functions cannot be nested, I chose to raise an error if the compiler 
> sees "End" not at the beginning of the line.
>
> I couldn't imagine that someone will indent a whole function for any 
> reason!
>
> Maybe I can replace that error by a warning? Or better take the entire 
> indent into account and detect indent mismatch (beginning and end of 
> function not with the same indent)?
Benoît, I can't agree. Anything that makes the code validity dependent 
on its starting point in the line just adds an impost on the coder that 
philosophically should not be there.

Surely, the case mentioned should have issued the "If without end if" 
error. Did it not do so?

b