Weird syntax errors?
- Posted by boater Nov 17, 2012
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I'm running Eu 4.0.4 on a Windows 7 machine, and have recently run into some most odd looking syntax error reports. Doubtless my fault, but I cannot see why.
Under ED, if I write and then run
sequence work = {} atom flags = 32768 object hed work = and_bits(14, flags)w hed = 1
including the extra character mis-typed at the end of the fourth line, the run fails with an error 'attempt to redefine hed'
Even more peculiar: if I comment out the object declaration, in a feeble attempt to remove the source of the re-declaration
... --object hed ...
then the error is quite different - I end up with TWO 'Errors resolving the following references', both complaining about 'w', but one of them on line 5 (the mis-typed character), and one of them on line 7 - where the parser seems to be hallucinating the term again.
Anyone tell me what I am doing wrong (other than bad typing?)
