Certain aggregate symbols cause problems in other aggregates

[ben-reilly]

Somewhat similar to #202 (and by extension, #128), special symbols seem to not be parsed properly when used in an aggregate.
e.g.

* = Crate
@ = * and Target

gives the error

Something bad's happening in the LEGEND

[rmmh]

not sure if this is a bug or a feature

special symbols can't be used to refer to objects in the rules section, so maybe just a better error message? ("objects can only be referred to by symbols in the levels section")

[increpare]

i guess you should be allowed to refer to things by symbols/their names
wherever it's not ambiguous, right?

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Ryan Hitchman notifications@github.com
wrote:

not sure if this is a bug or a feature

special symbols can't be used to refer to objects in the rules section, so
maybe just a better error message? ("objects can only be referred to by
symbols in the levels section")

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[increpare]

need to do #375 first - the system right now can't handle chains of definitions, so even if I allow the compiler to parse this it will get confused.

[increpare]

So I thought about this, and I managed to implement support for it that didn't break the tests. However, I feel like it's not something I want to support? The small but definite chance of this change randomly breaking someone's game isn't maybe worth allowing people to code in a coding style I'm not too hot for - the randomo symbols are enabled chiefly for the map editor. I just see lots of nasty edge cases coming up if I add this feature and anyone actually uses it. So better that people encounter errors sooner rather than later ^^ (but a better error message may be nice)

(
the change involved introducing the following regexps in key places:
var reg_name_simple = /[\p{L}\p{N}]+[\p{Z}\s]/u;///\w[a-uw-zA-UW-Z0-9]/;
var reg_name = /((?![(])[\p{L}\p{N}\p{P}\p{S}])+[\p{Z}\s]/u;///\w[a-uw-zA-UW-Z0-9_]/;
var reg_name_nocomma = /((?![(,])[\p{L}\p{N}\p{P}\p{S}])+[\p{Z}\s]/u;///\w[a-uw-zA-UW-Z0-9_]/;

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