Null reference exception message surfacing from `Evaluate`
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Describe the bug
Certain expressions, seemingly those that have a negative sign followed by nothing (or perhaps other operators), throw an ExpressiveException the content of which is 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.'. While obviously such an expression is not valid, and should throw some sort of exception, I'd expect it to be something a bit more user friendly. E.g. "The right hand side of the operation is missing".
To Reproduce
The extremely minimal repro of this is the following code.
using Expressive;
var expression = new Expression("-");
expression.Evaluate();
More generally, seems to be for any operator that doesn't require a left hand side, when the right hand side is missing. E.g. !
or +
as well as -
.
Expected behavior
A more user friendly message explaining why the formula is invalid.
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Platform (please complete the following information):
Seen on Windows, .NET 8 app, ExpressiveParser version 2.5.0
Additional context
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Oh yeah that is a great find thanks! I would have expected a very similar error message to what you stated in your report.