Re: The semicolon habit (was: Q: Definition of a scripting lang.)

bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
Wed, 10 May 1995 11:17:23 GMT

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From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
Keywords: C++, syntax
Organization: Department of Computer Science; University of Manchester
References: 95-04-013 95-05-014
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 11:17:23 GMT

daveb@perth.DIALix.oz.au (David Brooks) writes:
      ... I have just been working with some fairly heavy-duty C++ code, and it
      can be quite baffling to get a (sometimes misleading) compiler
      diagnostic, which points at a line containing a really heavy compound
      statement. It's by no means always obvious what the compiler is
      objecting to. ...


Indeed, that's why I dislike compilers that only give line numbers. I
much prefer character position or failing that line -and- column.
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