Re: Is the dangling else a syntax bug?

"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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