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cmd/compile: incorrect error message on unclosed [ in map indexing #47704

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ALTree opened this issue Aug 14, 2021 · 3 comments
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cmd/compile: incorrect error message on unclosed [ in map indexing #47704

ALTree opened this issue Aug 14, 2021 · 3 comments
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@ALTree ALTree commented Aug 14, 2021 •
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go version go1.16.5 linux/amd64
go version devel go1.18-a632b433a1 Fri Aug 13 19:30:04 2021 +0200 linux/amd64

package p

func f(m map[int]int) int {
	return m[0
		]
}

$ go build test.go
# command-line-arguments
./test.go:4:12: syntax error: unexpected newline, expecting :

The expecting : part of the error message is plainly wrong, as there's no way to get a program that compiles by putting a : there.

go/types correctly reports expected ']', found newline.

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@ALTree ALTree changed the title cmd/compile: incorrect error message on unclosed ] in map indexing cmd/compile: incorrect error message on unclosed [ in map indexing Aug 14, 2021
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@griesemer griesemer commented Aug 14, 2021

Note that is a syntax error and not a type-checking error, so the compiler doesn't know the type of m. In this case the parser assumes that the incomplete m[0 was going to be a slice expression and thus expected a : (slices tend to be more common than maps). The error should probably be syntax error: unexpected newline, expecting : or ].

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Change https://golang.org/cl/342369 mentions this issue: cmd/compile/internal/syntax: better error message for index syntax error

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Change https://golang.org/cl/342370 mentions this issue: cmd/compile/internal/types2: better error message for index syntax error (follow-up)

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For #47704.

Change-Id: I09e6f638df0cd456a20a3b68ab55c47bb5b1f555
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/342370
Trust: Robert Griesemer <[email protected]>
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