Re: bug in Marst assignment

[Leif Harcke]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Andrew Makhorin wrote:
> In fact, this is a stupid bug: the marst translator thinks that in the
> context a[i] := i; the identifier i is still the left part of the
> assignment statement (i.e. as if there were a[i] := i := ...), while it
> is a final expression in the right part.

Yes, I thought as much, as forcing the translator to treat the right hand 
side as an expression by saying a[i] = (i); resolved the translator error 
message.  

> In order to fix the bug please insert two lines into the file marst.c
> (the version 2.4) as follows:
[...]
> After patching marst.c I tried your example, and it said to me:
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
> Correct? :+)

Right.  base64 encoded version of the patch follows for those on the list
who don't want to start up the text editor and patch by hand.

yours,

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Leif Harcke
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