Cheers Rob and sswiftt - Too Right!
I think my record was 157 compile errors due to one missing semicolon in Borland C.
Don't take me back to those nightmares!
A further thought is that it's always struck me that a good basic is FAR more difficult to write than a bracketed type language:
e.g. if (this=true) - must be easy to parse with everything bracketted.
But if this=true and that=false * 1/10 * pi - must be a nightmare, and full credits to Mark that his parser IS so competent, and allows us to think and code in a more human manner just concentrating on the logic of what we are doing, and not to have to cope with the idiosyncrasies of a lazily programmed compiler.
I think my record was 157 compile errors due to one missing semicolon in Borland C.
Don't take me back to those nightmares!
A further thought is that it's always struck me that a good basic is FAR more difficult to write than a bracketed type language:
e.g. if (this=true) - must be easy to parse with everything bracketted.
But if this=true and that=false * 1/10 * pi - must be a nightmare, and full credits to Mark that his parser IS so competent, and allows us to think and code in a more human manner just concentrating on the logic of what we are doing, and not to have to cope with the idiosyncrasies of a lazily programmed compiler.