[Remind-Fans] Heads up / speak up: Change coming to Remind's parser

[Justin Alcorn]

I downloaded the latest v5 code and installed, and copied the defs.rem into
my directory.   I'm getting LOTS of te new error starting on line 308 in
that file.
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Justin B. Alcorn
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 1:07 PM Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans <
remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:

> Hi, everyone,
>
> Prompted by a personal email from someone looking for support, I've made
> a couple of changes to the Remind parser for the next release that might
> cause some warnings to be issued for previously-valid reminder files.
>
> In the existing version:
>
>    This is a line
>
> is equivalent to:
>
>    REM MSG This is a line
>
> That is, if Remind can't parse the first token of a line, it assumes
> it's just a MSG-type body.
>
> Also:
>
>    REM Jun Hello!
>
> is equivalent to:
>
>    REM Jun MSG Hello!
>
> That is, if Remind can't parse a token in a trigger specification, it
> assumes
> it's the start of a MSG-type body.
>
> In the next release, these types of lines will still be parsed the same
> way, but will issue warnings.  In the first case, the warning will be
> "Unrecognized command; interpreting as REM" and in the second case, it
> will be
> "Missing REM type; assuming MSG"
>
> I had to change some of the files that ship with Remind to avoid these
> warnings, and it's possible/likely you'll need to update your files
> too.  The rationale for this change is that if a future version of
> Remind introduces new keywords, old reminder files might suddenly
> start behaving very differently.  Better to have everything be
> explicit.
>
> If you are vehemently opposed to this change, please speak up.  I will
> not revert it, but I might consider a command-line flag to suppress the
> warnings.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dianne.
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