That must be because of the ternary operator: condition ? result-if-true : result-if-false although you're probably right that a smarter parser should be

That must be because of the ternary operator: condition ? result-if-true : result-if-false although you're probably right that a smarter parser should be able to distinguish between both cases. But then the next guy comes along and complains that he can't use a colon as a valid character in his variable names...