Syntax error... in the wrong place

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Mar 1 11:36:40 PST 2013


---- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>

> On 3/1/2013 12:04 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > The table below is giving me a syntax error. the error is
> >
> > """
> > Syntax error in line 21:
> >
> > ::new(to) = old(fr):
> >                  ^
> > """

> [...]
> 
> Actually, it's properly showing and pointing to the error. However, for
> some reason, it's displaying the line *number* of the definition of the
> "old" import statement.

So the error routine is confused, and displaying fr, instead of to.

Got it.

So, what's syntactically incorrect about using a variable named fr to
subscript a reference to an import?  You can't *use* a variable there?

I have to write 29 copy statements by hand?

Cheers,
-- jra
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