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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Error recovery (long)
Message-ID: <1538@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Jun-86 13:29:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  3 13:29:49 1986
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In article <312@uw-nsr.UUCP> john@uw-nsr.UUCP writes:
>I don't know the parsing method used in
>this compiler; it does not seem to suffer from poor error recovery as do 
>many recursive-descent parsers.

My impression is that the quality of the error recovery has little to do
with the parsing method used, and a great deal to do with how much effort is
investing in making the error recovery good.

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108