Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] NAME begins with digit
Date: Thursday, 24 Sep 2020, 16:13:46

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > On the parsley staff solution, if a line is inputted where the first
    > character of the NAME of a NAME=VALUE local is a digit, no error is
    > reported. However, in the spec, the NAME cannot start with a number. Is
    > this an error in parsley for not reporting this?


I assume you tried something like

  % ./parsley
  (1)$ 1=2 a b
  CMD (Depth = 0):  SIMPLE,  argv[0] = 1=2,  argv[1] = a,  argv[2] = b

The first TEXT token 1=2 is not of the form NAME=VALUE
where NAME begins with an alphabetic or underscore and
thus cannot be a local variable definition.  Thus it
must be the 0th argument, which is how it is displayed
above.  There is no error.

--Stan-