[I6 Compiler] 'Compiler errors'

[auraes]

Oops, I have not done on purpose and it’s scary !

Inform 6.33N (20th August 2014)
line 2: *** Compiler error: SR error: emitter stack empty
line 2: Error: Expected comma but found .

print() i.
Compiled with 1 error (no output)

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[ main i; print() i.describe; ];

[zarf (Andrew Plotkin)]

print is a statement, not a function. You can say

print i.describe;

…although this will print a number rather than the contents of a string. More likely you want

print (string) i.describe;

[DavidG (David Griffith)]

Shouldn’t the compiler tell the author something along the lines of “You can’t do that” rather than “Oops, I don’t know what the hell happened.”?

[dfremont (Daniel Fremont)]

There is already an issue in the bug-tracker for this compiler error: see the third note on issue 0001688.