Yeah, I *know* that intellectually, but it always seemed to me that a
sufficiently intelligent compiler could be designed that would be
able to dope that out correctly a huge percentage of the time.
Besides, I like screaming at compilers at 3 a.m.
BTW and FWIW, in the last year or so that I was able to use Smalltalk
as my development platform of choice, it had become quite
sophisticated in this sense. If you made a "syntax error," for
example, it would suggest known method, class and identifier names
that you might have meant. It was uncannily able to "guess" the right
one as its first choice. Saved me a ton of time I'd have spent re-
editing and recompiling Java.
On Sep 22, 2005, at 1:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because the compiler *doesn't* know whether you (a) neglected to
put the
semicolon at the end of that line, or (b) accidentally hit return
and kept on
typing. The appropriate response for each case is different. Which
begs the
question: How is the compiler supposed to determine which response
it should
apply?
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