lessc file ordering problems

[ahamid]

If I invoke lessc with one order of files, the second file content is not included in the output. If i flip the order then both file contents are included:

[aaron@msi-cr620 andreas-2]$ lessc crossroads.less pivotx_light.less  | grep header
.header_content{width:460px;}
.header_content h1{border-top:0px;}
.header_content h1 *{width:460px;}
#header{height:180px;background:#495170 url(images/header_light.jpg);}
[aaron@msi-cr620 andreas-2]$ lessc pivotx_light.less crossroads.less | grep header
#header{height:180px;background:#495170 url(images/header_light.jpg);}

the missing lines are not present in pivotx_light.less, so I think that rules out weird inheritance interactions.

[ahamid]

a similar issue was occurring with @import, namely a trailing @import statement was not including file content. assuming perhaps @import only worked for importing mixins and variables, I fell back to direct file ordering as above.

[ahamid]

I narrowed it down to a syntax error that was masked:

[aaron@msi-cr620 andreas-2]$ cat bad.less 
.ok {
  font-size: large;
}

.bad {
  height: 10px;;
}
[aaron@msi-cr620 andreas-2]$ cat good.less 
.good {
  width: 10px;
}
[aaron@msi-cr620 andreas-2]$ lessc good.less bad.less
.good{width:10px;}
.ok{font-size:large;}
[aaron@msi-cr620 andreas-2]$ lessc bad.less good.less 
.ok{font-size:large;}
[aaron@msi-cr620 andreas-2]$ 

errors from V8 don't make it out of this method:

# Convert `less` source into a abstract syntaxt tree
# @param [String] less the source to parse
# @return [Less::Tree] the parsed tree
def parse(less)
  calljs do
    error,tree = nil
    @parser.parse(less, lambda {|e, t|
      error = e; tree = t
    })
    Tree.new(tree) if tree
  end
end

[ahamid]

this also solved the previous issue with @import'ing the second file which makes sense since nothing after the syntax error was getting parsed and rendered.

[cowboyd]

Would you suggest that it raise an error?