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dart/frog/leg/scanner/scanner_task.dart

Index: dart/frog/leg/scanner/scanner_task.dart
diff --git a/dart/frog/leg/scanner/scanner_task.dart b/dart/frog/leg/scanner/scanner_task.dart
index 76072b368d69e529da41e67f4b183a81ffd01e24..4d9642ab38b1e6773dbe26085b6c1094da14119c 100644
--- a/dart/frog/leg/scanner/scanner_task.dart
+++ b/dart/frog/leg/scanner/scanner_task.dart
@@ -23,7 +23,22 @@ class ScannerTask extends CompilerTask {
 
   Link<Element> scanElements(CompilationUnitElement compilationUnit) {
     Script script = compilationUnit.script;
-    Token tokens = new StringScanner(script.text).tokenize();
+    Token tokens;
+    try {
+      tokens = new StringScanner(script.text).tokenize();
+    } catch (MalformedInputException ex) {
+      Token token;
+      var message;
+      if (ex.message is int) {
+        token = new Token(EOF_INFO, ex.message);
+        message = 'unexpected character';
+      } else {
+        token = new Token(EOF_INFO, 0);
+        message = ex.message;
+      }
+      compiler.cancel(message, token: token);
+      throw 'unrecoverable error';

[karlklose, 2012/01/17 16:54:36]

Compiler.cancel should terminate the compilation, so you do not need to throw.

+    }
     ElementListener listener = new ElementListener(compiler, compilationUnit);
     PartialParser parser = new PartialParser(listener);
     parser.parseUnit(tokens);