Re: Comment in last line

[Urs Liska]

Am 11.01.2013 23:25, schrieb David Kastrup:
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Noeck <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > why does compiling this code fail to compile with lilypond?
> > >
> > > \version "2.16.0"
> > > { a }
> > > %
> > >
> > > The empty comment in the last line is the problem.
> > No, the problem is that there _is_ no last line.  You have an EOF in the
> > middle of the line (not every editor will even allow producing that).
> > Since a line comment has to end with a newline, this is not a line
> > comment, and a non-comment % is beyond LilyPond's understanding.
> >
> > One would need to non-trivially rewrite comment matching in the lexer to
> > get either a nicer error message or just silently a line comment even
> > though the line does not end.
> Ok, apparently I lied.
>
> <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3102>
Hm. I never managed to understand these expression matching hieroglyphs.
But is it right that the 'new' side of the diff does look much simpler 
than the old one?