Amit,
oh you c programmer you! us lowly fortran types freak out when we see
braces. we are always forgetting them. Alas the clash of two cultures :)
On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
> Thanks Mary and Rick for the long answer. I wish NCL had a End of Line
> character like C & Perl, and braces for nesting statements. Is it too
> hard to change or will it now be too late to make such a change?
>
> I am confused when I dont see braces or some sort of nesting delimiter.
> Indentation doesn't seem natural without braces. I may sound radical
> here :)
>
> Amit
> --- Rick Grubin <grubin AT ucar.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
> >
> > > why does NCL spit out this when there is no newline after the 'end'
> > > statement at the end of file? Is this by design?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > >
> > > fatal:syntax error: line -1 before or near
> > > end
> > > ---^
> > >
> > > fatal:error in statement
> >
> > Hi Amit,
> >
> > NCL script code must be parsed to ensure that the script syntax is
> > valid
> > and contains no errors, e.g. there must be an "end do" for each "do"
> > statement.
> >
> > Part of NCL's syntax is that a "statement" in NCL has no specific
> > terminating character, like C's and Perl's ";" character. NCL's
> > parser
> > looks for an end-of-line character (a carriage return/newline
> > combination)
> > as it's statement (and line) termination. Without this termination
> > character for a statement, NCL's parser deduces that the statement in
> > question is incomplete, and emits the error you're seeing.
> >
> > The short answer: each NCL statement requires a newline to properly
> > terminate it, in a syntactical sense.
> >
> > -Rick.
> > --
> > Rick Grubin Visualization + Enabling Technologies
> > Scientific Computing Division National Center for Atmospheric
> > Research
> > grubin AT ncar.ucar.edu 303.497.1832
> >
>
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