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From: hpoppe@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
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Subject: Re: ';' inserted (Re: MPW wish list)
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Date: 9 Feb 90 16:38:18 GMT
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In article <2899@draken.nada.kth.se> d88-bli@nada.kth.se (Bo Lindbergh) writes:
>...
>Anyhow, I miss this feature too.  It isn't that hard to extend the syntax to
>include common errors like missing semicolons or semicolon before 'else', so
>why isn't it done more often?  Are compiler writers just lazy?

No, they are just trying to keep programmers from becoming lazy ;-).

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