Unpaired curly inside string confuses nex

[purpleidea]

Quite hilariously, an unpaired curly brace inside nex golang code causes lex/parse errors with nex itself!

Example:

/\$[a-z][a-z0-9]*{[0-9]+}/
		{
			yylex.pos(lval) // our pos
			s := yylex.Text()
			a := strings.Split(s, "{") // XXX: close match here: }
			lval.str = a[0]
			return IDENTIFIER
		}

Note the comment I added with a close brace. I added that as a workaround so that this works. Remove it and you'll see nex errors:

panic: unmatched '{'

goroutine 16 [running]:
runtime.gopanic
	../../../libgo/go/runtime/panic.go:493
main.$nested34
	/builddir/build/BUILD/nex-5344f151fd3251726650dffd30a531d3f1bddc17/nex.go:1027
main.$nested35
	/builddir/build/BUILD/nex-5344f151fd3251726650dffd30a531d3f1bddc17/nex.go:1094
main.process
	/builddir/build/BUILD/nex-5344f151fd3251726650dffd30a531d3f1bddc17/nex.go:1099
main.main
	/builddir/build/BUILD/nex-5344f151fd3251726650dffd30a531d3f1bddc17/main.go:81
runtime_main
	../../../libgo/runtime/proc.c:606

HTH

[purpleidea]

Interestingly enough as discovered in the source today it seems this is a known issue:

nex/test/nex_test.go

Line 367 in 542279e

// } [balance out the quoted left brace]

=D