Re: problems with some 'End' marks

[Fabien Bodard <gambas.fr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Le sam. 29 mars 2025 à 05:09, Benoît Minisini <
benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> 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)?
>

Or create a new syntax...  As you told us a long time before.

-- 
> Benoît Minisini.
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