syntax error

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Jan-2007, Mike Gross wrote:

| Hello,
| 
| Recently a coworker of mine ran across the following problem which I 
| thought to be a little confusing.  He kept getting a syntax error in one 
| of his functions and had trouble determining where the problem actually was.
| 
| I took a quick look at his file and nothing seemed obviously wrong. 
| After puzzling over it for a while I eventually tried running it in 
| matlab and it immediately gave me an error: "end" expected, "End of 
| Input" found.
| 
| With this information it was easy to locate and fix the problem, which 
| of course was a missing end statement.  In general the syntax error 
| message is great as it prints the offending line, but when there is an 
| error of omission the error is blank.
| 
| Does anyone else think that it would be useful to include a little more 
| description as to what the actual syntax error is?

Yes.

I would certainly consider patches to help improve the error messages
that come from the parser (or any other part of Octave).

jwe