syntax error?why?

[Robert L Hicks]

It works...it could just work better. That doesn't make it a bug.
 
> From: Steve Holden <sholden at holdenweb.com>
> Organization: Holden Web: Intranet Technology Specialists
> Reply-To: sholden at BellAtlantic.net
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 15:32:11 -0500
> Subject: Re: syntax error?why?
> 
> Robert L Hicks wrote:
>> 
>> I don't think this is a bug. It caught the error. Sure it should be more
>> informational but that doesn't classify it as a bug.
>> 
> What, you'd classify it as a feature?
> 
>>> From: Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk>
>>> Organization: University of Cambridge, England
>>> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
>>> Date: 03 Nov 2000 19:04:56 +0000
>>> Subject: Re: syntax error?why?
>>> 
>>> "Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Therefore, this must count as a bug of the Python
>>>> compiler -- it displays insufficient information
>>>> on these kinds of syntax errors (showing a couple
>>>> of extra previous lines would help, as would having
>>>> a message a TAD more informative than 'invalid
>>>> syntax'!-).  Quite unfriendly, especially to
>>>> beginning users of Python...
>>> 
>>> Python 2 is much better here (praise be to Ping!).  Of course I can't
>>> tell you whether it would be in this situation...
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> M.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran.
>>> If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases.
>>> -- Guy L. Steele Jr, quoted by David Rush in comp.lang.scheme.scsh
> 
> While "bug" is sometimes used in a perjorative context, many use it to
> refer to "anything which needs fixing".  1.5.2 was pretty unfriendly about
> certain types of syntax errors (especially the ones it just reported as
> "syntax error"...) but given it's now obsolescent I wound't give much
> for the chances of this particular problem being retroactively fixed.
> 
> It's just too expensive to fire up the time machine.
> 
> regards
> Steve
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