Syntax Highlight Error: If statements in config files mark as error

[mblanche]

Hi, for some reason, the syntax highlighter is now throwing an exception when using conditional logic within config files. I don't thinks this is expected, it's a coding style commonly used within the community and as well as whithin most of nf-core pipeplines. Is there a way to fix this? Is this something I'm not doing right? thanks

[bentsherman]

It did emerge as a common pattern, but we decided to not support it in the strict syntax because config files were never meant to have full scripting capabilities. If statements can still be used within closures, just not at the top level. See these docs for details.

I think best practices are still developing around this. For now the quick fix is to remove the top if-statement and use nextflow.enable.configProcessNamesValidation to suppress the "unknown config settings for process with name..." warnings.