cmd/compile: parsing problem

[Dmitry Vyukov]

old/new parser disagree on error message for the following program:

package n
{

$ go tool compile a.go
syntax error: non-declaration statement outside function body
$ go tool compile -oldparser a.go
syntax error: unexpected semicolon or newline before {

go version devel +25a28da Sun Nov 15 23:41:28 2015 +0000 linux/amd64

[Robert Griesemer]

I think here the new error message is clearly better: The -oldparser error seems to imply that if there were no semi or newline, the { would be ok, but that's certainly not the case.

Furthermore, when removing the newline as in

package n {

both the old and new compiler agree and report

unexpected {, expecting semicolon or newline