Re: [Sc-devel] sclang segfault

["Dan Stowell" <danstowell@xxxxxxxxx>]

2007/12/4, James Harkins <jamshark70@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> On Dec 3, 2007, at 9:17 AM, blackrain wrote:
>
> ouch
> w = {};
> w(); is wrong syntax but imo should not crash the lang.
> you should use w.() (the shortcut to dot value)
> Same thing happens in OS X
> I realized later what is the cause of this issue. If you write rand(10), it
> compiles exactly as if you had written 10.rand. So, rand() is just like...
> what? .rand (which is a parse error)? ().rand actually doesn't crash, but
> that's just because () returns an empty Event, so it's legal (if a silly
> thing to do).
>
> It should be a parse error, I think.


Is it anything to do with this change JMc made a while ago?

http://create.ucsb.edu/pipermail/sc-users/2006-August/027726.html

(it was svn rev 5533)

Dan