Re: Comment in last line

[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>

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David Kastrup