unbelievable parser bug (PR#956)

maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch writes:

"FrL" == Friedrich Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

On Tue, 29 May 2001 14:25:19 +0200 (MET DST),
maechler  (m) wrote:

    >> close to ``unbelievable'' but the following line is not parsed
    >> correctly but gives a syntax error :

    >> x <- 1  ## A = 1

    FrL> what you don't see is that the ``spaces'' before the comment are
    FrL> no spaces: if I copy & paste the thing to a vi buffer I see:

    FrL> 	 x <- 1\xa0\xa0## A = 1

....

;-)  

thank you, Fritz.   
Now what about a "morale of the story" (<< probably a Germanism) ?

Don't cut and paste from e-mails any more, unless you have a really
ASCII only e-mail program or editor into which you paste.
Unfortunately, emacs doesn't seem to be among these anymore...  
aaargghh...

Hmm. 0xa0 is M-SPC. These are fairly easily generated on non-English
keyboards: both Alt_L+SPC and AltGr+SPC on mine (and those three keys
are adjacent). It might make sense to force the parser to accept the
"metafied" whitespace characters?

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Martin

Re: Germanism, Not so. This is from "The Ballad of Frankie Lee
and Judas Priest" on Bob Dylan's "John Wesley Harding" album.
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Well, the moral of the story,
the moral of this song
is simply that one should never be
where one does not belong
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--- Jan

thank you, Fritz.
Now what about a "morale of the story" (<< probably a Germanism) ?

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Martin


Re: Germanism, Not so. This is from "The Ballad of Frankie Lee=20

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Well, the moral of the story,

the moral of this song

is simply that one should never be

where one does not belong

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--- Jan


On Tuesday, May 29, 2001, at 06:11 AM, maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch
wrote:


<excerpt>thank you, Fritz.  =20

Now what about a "morale of the story" (<<<< probably a Germanism) ?


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US mail: 9432 Boulter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554

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deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu

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