Re: Strange errors on missing braces

[Graham Percival]

On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:58:07 +0100
Michael K__ppler <address@hidden> wrote:

> \version "2.11.37"
> 
> \score {
>  <<
>   c4 e d f
>  >>
> 
> leads to the strange error message:

I trust you know that you're missing a
}
at the end.
 
> I would consider this a bug, because this message neither says what
> the real error is, nor even lets the user know, that the error is in
> his file, not in a Lily init file.

This is a known problem which we unfortunately have no resource to
fix.  :(
Frankly, I treat almost any error message as "something
bad happened"; I generally don't even bother reading the output of
the message.

Cheers,
- Graham