Dancing with labels...

[Melissa]

Just got bored once again:

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*Label : Goto *Label
; Syntax error

...However...

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*Label : *Label :
; Error: duplicate label.

Not too disturbing, indeed, but still need more love.

[UserOfPure]

You can report a bug for anything if you mess up the names with invalid characters. What do I mean? Well, the manual (which you read?) says that labels can't contain operators, yet you used * in the label name. Remove the * like the manual says and both examples are fine, in that the first loops endlessly and the second reports a duplicate label.

In other words, what you've done is the equivalent of reporting this as a bug, because it too gives a syntax error:

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*CreateImage(1,640,480) ; Syntax error.

[Melissa]

Well, you are right - it's seems to be just a limitation of parser. So, there are some solution:

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*Label : Goto Label

[Kuron]

Not too disturbing, indeed, but still need more love.

[fsw]

Well, you are right - it's seems to be just a limitation of parser. So, there are some solution:

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*Label : Goto Label

The Help file states:

Labels

All labels must be followed by a : (colon). Label names may not contain any operators (+,-,...) as well special characters (ß,ä,ö,ü,...).

You don't have to put the operator * in front of the label name, and it's not a pointer either...

Besides it's good practice to do:

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LabelName:

(no space between the label name and the colon) instead of:

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LabelName :

because colon can be used to concatenate commands like:

If IsCrazy = 0 : MessageRequester("Info", "Not Crazy") : Else : MessageRequester("Info", "Crazy") : EndIf

Hope to have cleared some things up.

Take care
fsw

BTW: the last example is straight from the help file. The words used in the example don't imply a connection to a person reading it...
...I hope. If somebody needs further clarification on this please contact the original writer of the help file. Thanks.

[Melissa]

OK, some more tests:

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+Label : ; Syntax Error

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-Label : ; Syntax Error

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/Label : ; Syntax Error

...Looks like that parser just unable to distinguish label from pointer on definition stage. Well, since I already found such usage in some polyglot code – may be a feature as well.

Besides it's good practice to do:

Just testing, really.

[Rings]

moved....

[Melissa]

Well, since Ring officially stated here that ability to define *–powered labels is actually a feature, may be some correction in documentation (“Label names may not contain any operators”) should be made ^^ ?

[UserOfPure]

Rings isn't a team member. He's just a forum mod. (No offense intended, Rings). The docs are correct until the team says otherwise.

[Rings]

The docs are clear for me,
such syntax is not allowed in PB (neither in classic VB )
so its not a bug,
That is why i moved that topic.
And this is not a statement.

[Melissa]

Rings isn't a team member. He's just a forum mod.

It was kind of sarcasm). Well, now we just should decide what is wrong here:

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*Label :  Goto Label ; No errors generated !

...or...

Label names may not contain any operators

...’cause there are obvious conflict here. May be some poll would help ^^ ?

such syntax is not allowed in PB (neither in classic VB )

It is allowed (partially). Just look above.

[UserOfPure]

If it works, it's just a fluke. Just obey what the docs say and be done with it. Don't use the *. Easy.

[Melissa]

If it works, it's just a fluke.

Then, if it isn't intended behavior, thread should be moved back to "Bug Reports", right ?

[UserOfPure]

No, because it's not a bug if you don't do what the manual says. And I feel like I'm feeding the troll here.

[Melissa]

No, because it's not a bug if you don't do what the manual says

So, isn't a bug when compiler doesn't do required checks for enforcing syntax rules ? I'm out of words here.

And I feel like I'm feeding the troll here.

Honestly ? Me too.