<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">dear Karl,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks for your answer. I finally found the error, it was an unnecessary semicolon after an "end".</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have a hard time finding the precise rules: when are semicolons after "end" necessary / optional / forbidden?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(The only thing I know for sure is that the semicolon is forbidden when we are in an if-test</div><div class="">and an "else" is following:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">if xxx begin xxx end else begin xxx end; <--- no semicolon between "end" and "else"</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">but beside that I couldn't find precise information and TeX's Pascal code is either not very consistent</div><div class="">with respect to semicolons or maybe it follows some pattern that I wasn't able to find out yet…)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks again for your help,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yannis</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Le 21 mars 2021 à 02:57, Karl Berry <<a href="mailto:karl@freefriends.org" class="">karl@freefriends.org</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""> Is there a way to localize the error? <br class=""><br class="">For the record, this is the brief reply I sent to when Yannis asked me<br class="">separately. It's all I have. Web2c is a lousy development environment,<br class="">no question.<br class=""><br class="">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="">Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:19:09 -0700<br class="">From: Karl Berry <<a href="mailto:karl@freefriends.org" class="">karl@freefriends.org</a>><br class="">To: <a href="mailto:yannis1962@gmail.com" class="">yannis1962@gmail.com</a><br class="">Subject: Re: Debugging<br class="">In-Reply-To: <<a href="mailto:466F362F-4E43-4655-B0FC-2710ABD215AD@gmail.com" class="">466F362F-4E43-4655-B0FC-2710ABD215AD@gmail.com</a>><br class=""><br class=""> Can you tell me how to localize the error?<br class=""><br class="">There is no good way. Just have to go back to the original, make sure it<br class="">works, and add individual lines until you find the error, which<br class="">apparently has something to do with "true" and a semicolon.<br class=""><br class="">Sometimes the .c file(s) left in (in your case)<br class=""> /var/folders/1n/fvs3dd2d5gqghwcw8khb41_h0000gn/T/<br class="">as given by the error msg provide a clue. [...]<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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