Colon and quotation mark conflict in strings

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A LOLCODE interpreter written in C.

http://lolcode.org

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Open sjoqvist opened 5 years ago

sjoqvist commented 5 years ago

This program

HAI 1.2
  VISIBLE ":"::"
KTHXBYE

prints ": as expected. However,

HAI 1.2
  VISIBLE ":::""
KTHXBYE

produces the error message test.lol:2: expected token delimiter after string literal. I would have expected it to print :".

It should be mentioned that VISIBLE "::" ":"" solves the problem, but I don't see why the second version would be incorrect.