extra space after } results in no menu item - bug?

[Patrik Lahti]

Hi,

I had accidentally put an extra space (" " ASCII 0x20) after the end 
curly brace ("}" ASCII 0x7d) of a menuentry statement in my 40_custom 
script and this resulted in the menu entry not showing up in the grub2 
menu the next time I booted (I did update-grub of course). Menu entries 
in subsequent scripts (e.g. 50_example) was shown in the menu. And 
manually booting using the grub2 command line using the exact commands 
in the missing menuentry worked fine. This was on a recently installed 
and up to date Ubuntu 9.10.

It would be preferable if it didn't matter that there was an extra space 
there. Imagine the head scratching before figuring it out :-) If it's a 
syntax error to have a space after } then it would be nice if it 
complained (preferably in update-grub) instead of simply not showing the 
menu item.

Is this a known problem/limitation?

PS. I'm not subscribed so please cc me on any responses, thanks.

Regards and thanks in advance,
/P