[Laszlo-dev] parser bug with declaring type '*' ?

[Donald Anderson]

Henry,

It's the "for (var k:* in obj)" that got you.
I haven't implement typed vars within the a for (var... in ...) yet.
I'm doing that now.

- Don

On Jan 8, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Henry Minsky wrote:

> I got a parser error in this code, apparently the type declaration for
> "var s:*" is confusing it
>
> class lzutils {
>
>   public static function objAsString(obj:*):String {
>   var s:* = "";
>       for (var k:* in obj) {
>           s+= k +": "+obj[k];
>           s+=", ";
>       }
>       return s;
>   }
> }
>
> lzl:
>    [echo] Compiling C:\users\hqm\openlaszlo\devildog/lps/includes/ 
> lfc/LFC9.lzl
>    [java] while compiling
> C:\users\hqm\openlaszlo\devildog\WEB-INF\lps\lfc\core\LzDefs.js
>    [java] while compiling
> C:\users\hqm\openlaszlo\devildog\WEB-INF\lps\lfc\core\Library.lzs
>    [java] Exception compiling scriptfile: Syntax error: the token ":
> * in" was not expected at this position at line 107, column 19.
>    [java] Was expecting one of: in, =, :, :, :
>    [java] org.openlaszlo.sc.parser.ParseException: Syntax error: the
> token ": * in" was not expected at this position at line 107, column
> 19.
>    [java] Was expecting one of: in, =, :, :, :
>    [java] 	at
> org.openlaszlo.sc.parser.Parser.generateParseException(Parser.java: 
> 9375)
>    [java] 	at
> org.openlaszlo.sc.parser.Parser.jj_consume_token(Parser.java:9250)
>    [java] 	at
> org.openlaszlo.sc.parser.Parser.ForVarInStatement(Parser.java:3561)
>    [java] 	at
> org.openlaszlo.sc.parser.Parser.IterationStatement(Parser.java:3039)
>    [java] 	at
> org.openlaszlo.sc.parser.Parser.ToplevelStatement(Parser.java:2316)
>    [java] 	at org.openlaszlo.sc.parser.Parser.Statement(Parser.java: 
> 2408)
>    [java] 	at  
> org.openlaszlo.sc.parser.Parser.StatementList(Parser.java:4861)
>    [java] 	at org.openlaszlo.sc.parser.Parser.Block(Parser.java:2647)
>    [java] 	at
> org.openlaszlo.sc.parser.Parser.FunctionDeclaration(Parser.java:4223)
>    [java] 	at  
> org.openlaszlo.sc.parser.Parser.ClassProperty(Parser.java:5215)
>    [java] 	at  
> org.openlaszlo.sc.parser.Parser.ClassDirective(Parser.java:5345)
>    [java] 	at
> org.openlaszlo.sc.parser.Parser.ClassDefinition(Parser.java:5765)
>    [java] 	at
> org.openlaszlo.sc.parser.Parser.ModifiedDefinition(Parser.java:4571)
>    [java] 	at org.openlaszlo.sc.parser.Parser.Directive(Parser.java: 
> 4602)
>    [java] 	at org.openlaszlo.sc.parser.Parser.Program(Parser.java: 
> 4526)
>    [java] 	at org.openlaszlo.sc.Compiler$Parser.parse0(Compiler.java: 
> 469)
>
>
> -- 
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com


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