Re: [Bug-kawa] not a BRL error: an unmatched '[' was read

[Per Bothner]

[It's generally best to enter bug reports in BugZilla, rather than
sending mail directly to bug-kawa.]

Bruce R. Lewis wrote:
> gnu.kawa.brl.BRLRead signals an error if there is no matching ']'.  In
> BRL this is not an error.  Sometimes it is helpful to assure no
> extraneous newlines at the end of output (e.g. producing a spreadsheet),

You mean a file with no newlines at the end?  Or one with only a single
newline at the end?  An alternative way to achieve the latter might be:

<h2>this is the header</h2>[
  (do-each line (begin (newline) (display-line)))]

Or perhaps better a rule that if there is only whitespace after a final
']' the final whitespace is ignored.  Optionally combined with a rule
to emit a final newline if the last line is non-terminated.  That might
be a little more robust.

But it's your language so you decide.  Keeping with historical behavior
is presumably easiest.

> and a BRLfile deliberately does not end in ] to make sure any ending
> whitespace is not output.

Send me a patch for the way you like it.   If a warning is ok, the
easiest is probably easiest to replace the 'e' by 'w'.
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