From a5329ae48c1a9a8cc1575e40a0ce396e5cc5c93b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gingerBill <bill@gingerbill.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:34:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add better package declaration specific error message (#878)

---
 src/parser.cpp | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/parser.cpp b/src/parser.cpp
index 8f1741054..f7e98d071 100644
--- a/src/parser.cpp
+++ b/src/parser.cpp
@@ -5204,6 +5204,11 @@ bool parse_file(Parser *p, AstFile *f) {
 
 	CommentGroup *docs = f->lead_comment;
 
+	if (f->curr_token.kind != Token_package) {
+		syntax_error(f->curr_token, "Expected a package declaration at the beginning of the file");
+		return false;
+	}
+
 	f->package_token = expect_token(f, Token_package);
 	if (f->package_token.kind != Token_package) {
 		return false;