Parser chokes on quoted semicolon

[lidavidm]

This is a minor issue, but a Lucius rule like this:

li {
    content: ";";
}

will give an error message like this:

(line 365, column 2):
unexpected end of input
expecting "/*", "}", "#", "@" or "{"
checkIfBlock

where the error message doesn't occur until the last line.

The parser doesn't seem to recognize that the semicolon is quoted. I tried "\;" but that has no effect. I believe CSS allows semicolons in strings and also allows backslash escaping (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#characters).

I am using Shakespeare version shakespeare-0.10.3.1.

[snoyberg]

Sorry for the delay in responding to this, it slipped between the cracks.

Unfortunately, it's a bit more complicated in Lucius, since it's entirely possible to include the close quote in a variable interpolation, e.g.:

li {
    content: ";#{quote};
}

Maybe we want to say that's a ridiculous case that should be ignored, but that's a decision we need to make since doing so could in theory break code. (It probably has larger effects than just this degenerate case.)

As a temporary workaround, you can do something like this:

li {
    content: "#{";"}";
}