Correct "call expression" use?

[denzil]

When I use:

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    call test ("someparameter")
    # or
    $ tmp = "test"
    call expression tmp

everything seems to work as it's supposed to. But when I try to combine these two:

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    call expression test ("someparameter")
    # also tried:
    call expression test ("someparameter") from some_random_label

then the game crashes with error: TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
Am I doing something wrong here, or is it RenPy error?

[PyTom]

What's going on here has to do with the definition of a simple_expression, and how parsing works.
According to the reference manual:

A simple_expression is a Python expression that starts with a name, a string, or any Python expression in parentheses. This may be followed by any number of the following:
* A dot followed by a name.
* A parenthesized python expression.

The problem here is that the parsing of a simple_expression is taking precedence over parsing the argument list. Basically, when you write:

call expression test ("someparameter")

it's being parsed as:

call expression (test("someparameter"))

which obviously crashes. I've fixed this so that one will be able to write:

call expression test pass ("someparameter")

which will resolve this ambiguity.

This change will be in the 6.10.2b release.