compound message allows colon

[naderp]

Hi,

Given the following .proto definition:

message person {
required string name = 1;
required int32 id = 2;
}

I noticed the following message syntax is valid:

person: {
name: "fred"
id: 3
}

i.e., the generated parser will quite happily accept a colon after the
compound message name (person: in this case).

Is this a bug or a "feature"?

Cheers

[Kenton Varda]

It's a "feature".  This has always been allowed.  No one really knows why.

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