Strange error message when excess @ symbols in source code.

[NTaylorMullen]

Moved from MVC, original issue: aspnet/Mvc#2843 by @lenardg

In the following situation the error message that Razor gives me is very misleading.

I have the following code in a .CSHTML file:

@if (Model.Results.Any()) {
    @foreach (var result in Model.Results) {
            // some HTML code and Razor values
            <div>
               @result.SomeValue.
            </div>
            // some more HTML code
        }
}

Which results in an error message as follows:

An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to process this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.

And also:

Identifier expected

The identifier expected references the line @result.SomeValue. in it. This line is included in the example above.

The error goes away if I remove the @ mark before @foreach, and just specify foreach

The error is caused by having a . (dot character) after SomeValue. I can either make this work by removing the dot or by remove the @ mark before @foreach. Note the dot character is indeed required, because we want to show the value followed by a dot.

Just to summarize, I am not objecting to how Razor works, but how this error is presented. It took some time to realize what I needed to do. Also, Visual Studio gave no indication something was wrong (VS2015 RTM)

[NTaylorMullen]

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