Is this a compiler bug?

[RickJ]

I want to declare a number of pointer variables.   So normally  I would write somthing like this. 

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	Button 	*First;
	Button	*Prev;
	Button	*Next;
	Button	*Last;

This works just fine.  But being the lazy sort I am,  I sometimes will put it all on one line like this. 

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	Button 	*First,  *Prev,  *Next,  *Last; 

But the compiler throws the following error when it's written that way. 

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Failed to save room room0.crm; details below
BluBox.ash(255): Error (line 255): '*' is already defined

--------------------- BluBox.ash -----------------------------------
255:	Button 	*First,  *Prev,  *Next,  *Last; 

One other thing I noticed is that when it's written as shown below it apparently works just fine.   There are no compiler errors and I am able to use the Prev, Next, and Last variables as I would any other pointer variable.    It's as if the first"*" is applied to subsequent variables defined on the same line. 

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	Button 	*First,  Prev,  Next,  Last;

This doesn't seem to be correct to me.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

It shouldn't really work that way, and I think long single line declarations have been discussed before as confusing the compiler's parser.

[RickJ]

Fair enough, didn't know it was known.

[Pumaman]

Well, it's not consistent with other languages like C, but really my plan would be to scrap the * altogether, since there's really no need for it with the "managed" designation for pointer structs.