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currently crying inconsolably at my parser as I try to get it to give me a proper error message in one very particular case and instead it just says something completely nonsensical.

who wrote this shit

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nevermind fixed it

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legit took me a minute to figure out that this error is, indeed, correct.

And I'm kind of annoyed that I think I have to add very special-case errors just to give more useful messages for weird corner cases like this.

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@zkat Is your code public?
If not can I ask which tools you used for your parser and these nice error messages?