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Magician Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 364

the syntax checker has been pretty bad for me, it shows errors on scripts that i use fine with zmud. the most common errors it shows are unmatched parens that are really matched. i was thinking that maybe the parens should flash or blink when you enter them in as they are paired would be a nice feature. also i wish the syntax checker had a quick-key so you don't have to go to format->syntax check with your mouse. on a line like this,
#ALIAS bstop {#var lastroom %roomnum;#T- bot}
i get a command list expected at row 10 col 9 which just doesnt sound right to me.

Wizard Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 1368

Seems to work fine for me. What version of the client are you using?

Magician Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 364

1.03 i am using

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

Sometimes you can get this error when you have a script running and a previous command wasn't closed out properly. Is this part of a bigger trigger or alias?

Oh, and zMUD's syntax checker wasn't the best. I get syntax errors on things that work fine and on some of those if I correct the syntax like it thinks it should it doesn't do what I want it to. So your example may not really have been the best syntax in zMUD but its checker didn't see it.

Just thoughts.

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:50 pm

As usual, if you want to report problems with the syntax checker, you need to include the EXACT script text that is causing the error.

The error about unmatched parens is a pretty generic error that the syntax checker gives when it gets confused. I'm trying to improve the error reporting, but error reporting in yacc-based parsers has always been a problem, so the error reporting will probably never be really great.

And yes, a short-cut key for the syntax check is planned.

Magician Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 482

Well also this can occur with word wrap turned on if the line goes over 1 line. I think the rest of the explinations were said by zugg.