[Attempto] Misleading error message in command
Joshua TAYLOR
tayloj at cs.rpi.edu
Thu Mar 31 21:41:25 CEST 2011
When I ask the webclient to parse the text:
John, initiate a fluent!
I get the errors:
error sentence 1 John, initiate a fluent <>! Commas must be followed
by 'and' or 'or', or must occur at specified positions in lists, sets
and commands.
error sentence 1 John, initiate a fluent <>! This is the first
sentence that was not ACE. The sign <> indicates the position where
parsing failed.
However, I get the desired parse by indicating that fluent is a noun:
John, initiate a n:fluent!
The second error message is what I usually see with undefined words
(that can't be guessed), but the first is misleading, since the comma
is a appearing at a specified position in a command. This isn't a
bug, per se, but it seems a little bit misleading.
--
Joshua Taylor, http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~tayloj/
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