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XML literals broken on trunk?

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Wed, 2009-06-17, 16:40
dcsobral
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Right now, I'm not able to enter any multiline XML literals inside REPL on trunk. Well, at rev 18006. Is it a known bug? Is it fixed already? The error I get is:   scala> val xml=<xml>
     | </xml>
<console>:2: error: illegal start of simple pattern
       </xml>
^
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Wed, 2009-06-17, 18:07
#1
extempore
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Re: XML literals broken on trunk?

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:34:36PM -0300, Daniel Sobral wrote:
> Right now, I'm not able to enter any multiline XML literals inside
> REPL on trunk. Well, at rev 18006. Is it a known bug? Is it fixed
> already? The error I get is:
>
> scala> val xml=
> |
> :2: error: illegal start of simple pattern
>
> ^

% scala
Welcome to Scala version 2.8.0.r0-b20090616082026
scala> val xml =
|
xml: scala.xml.Elem =

It looks like you can't jam the xml element up against the = sign, and
that it has always been thus.

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Wed, 2009-06-17, 18:37
#2
dcsobral
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Re: XML literals broken on trunk?
Cool! Now, could you disable tab completion inside xml literals? Pasting stuff has been a chore...   As in:   val xml = <root> \t<element/> </root>   With a proper translation for \t. :-)

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Paul Phillips <paulp@improving.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:34:36PM -0300, Daniel Sobral wrote:
> Right now, I'm not able to enter any multiline XML literals inside
> REPL on trunk. Well, at rev 18006. Is it a known bug? Is it fixed
> already? The error I get is:
>
> scala> val xml=<xml>
>      | </xml>
> <console>:2: error: illegal start of simple pattern
>        </xml>
> ^

% scala
Welcome to Scala version 2.8.0.r0-b20090616082026
scala> val xml = <xml>
    | </xml>
xml: scala.xml.Elem =
<xml>
      </xml>

It looks like you can't jam the xml element up against the = sign, and
that it has always been thus.

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