Re: Is the dangling else a syntax bug?

Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
18 Jul 2001 19:58:43 -0400

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From: Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 18 Jul 2001 19:58:43 -0400
Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
References: 01-06-073 01-07-020 01-07-029
Keywords: parse, practice, comment
Posted-Date: 18 Jul 2001 19:58:43 EDT

"Lasse Hillerĝe Petersen" wrote:


> However, in natural languages, omitting a comma is rarely a cause for
> misunderstanding, whereas in programming languages it is almost always
> considered a syntactic error.


Indeed - almost:


$ g77 primordial.f
primordial.f: In program `MAIN__':
primordial.f:13: warning:
              2 FORMAT (22H1THE LARGEST OF THESE I3, 12H NUMBERS IS F7.2)
                                                                                    ^
Missing comma in FORMAT statement at (^)
primordial.f:13: warning:
              2 FORMAT (22H1THE LARGEST OF THESE I3, 12H NUMBERS IS F7.2)
                                                                                                                          ^
Missing comma in FORMAT statement at (^)


[ OK - I'm cheating here; the format strings are counted strings ]


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