Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!gvcormack
From: gvcormack@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Gordon V. Cormack)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Language Design
Message-ID: <12443@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 89 12:32:50 GMT
References: <5200040@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <5200040@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, wsmith@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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> 
> (For example, in the language I'm learning now, C++, if you forget to 
> declare a class, it is a *syntax* error.  Not misuse of identifier or 
> undefined class, *syntax* error.)
> 

Don't blame C++.  Blame C.  

C is not context-free parsable [actually I believe it is, but not 
with any sensible grammar].
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Gordon V. Cormack     CS Dept, University of Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1
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