New symbol '^' (caret). The scanner now returns an error token if can't recognise a symbol.

scanner.go

@@ -86,13 +86,14 @@ func (self *scanner) Next() (tk *Token) {
 }
 
 func (self *scanner) fetchNextToken() (tk *Token) {
+	var ch byte
 	if err := self.skipBlanks(); err != nil {
 		return self.makeErrorToken(err)
 	}
 
 	escape := false
 	for {
-		ch, _ := self.readChar()
+		ch, _ = self.readChar()
 		switch ch {
 		case '+':
 			if next, _ := self.peek(); next == '+' {
@@ -143,6 +144,8 @@ func (self *scanner) fetchNextToken() (tk *Token) {
 			}
 		case ',':
 			tk = self.makeToken(SymComma, ch)
+		case '^':
+			tk = self.makeToken(SymCaret, ch)
 		case ':':
 			if next, _ := self.peek(); next == ':' {
 				tk = self.moveOn(SymDoubleColon, ch, next)
@@ -271,6 +274,9 @@ func (self *scanner) fetchNextToken() (tk *Token) {
 			break
 		}
 	}
+	if tk == nil {
+		tk = NewErrorToken(self.row, self.column, fmt.Errorf("unknown symbol '%c'", ch))
+	}
 	return
 }
 

symbol.go

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ const (
 	SymDoubleColon                       //  50: '::'
 	SymInsert                            //  51: '>>'
 	SymAppend                            //  52: '<<'
+	SymCaret                             //  53: '^'
 	SymChangeSign
 	SymUnchangeSign
 	SymIdentifier