[m-dev.] misleading error message

[Peter Schachte]

Hi,

I just got this error message from the compiler:

    delaytest.m:045: Error: some but not all arguments have modes:
    first(dvar(int) :: ia, dvar(int) :: ia, dvar(int) : ia, dvar(int) : ia).

OK, it's right, but it took me a while to figure out why.  Single and
double colons do look pretty similar.  It would be helpful if the
compiler gave an error message about the single colon terms in there,
rather than (or at least before) what it does say.

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